A German Day Of Mourning Card; First War Soldiers Auction Foonote: George Francis Davies was

Foonote: George Francis Davies was born in North Wales during 1885 and was working as a Clerk in Edmonton Alberta when he was drafted in January 1918

with a black swastika in the center

" Pearce received a congratulatory letter from the General Officer Commanding-in Chief of the Fourteenth Army

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A German Day Of Mourning Card; First War Soldiers Auction Foonote: George Francis Davies wasA Day of Commemoration of Heroes card, 14. 9 x 10. 4 cm. Date of item: Period of Nazi Germany. Condition: good, signs of aging, slight rip. A card celebrating the Heldengedenktag (Day of Commemoration of Heroes). It was first instituted as Volkstrauertag (Peoples Mourning Day) during the Weimar Republic, in memory of the fallen soldiers in WWI. It was supposed to be observed quietly and respectfully. The Nazis gave it a new name and a new meaning,