Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Buy Now home of his parents

home of his parents

measuring 104 mm x 59 mm

Enlisting in the 53rd (Northern Saskatchewan) Battalion in December 1914

chipping evident in the red and green enamels at the base of the crown on the reverse

(Ehrenzeichen für vieljährige verdienstliche Mitgliedschaft bei einer landsturmpflichtigen Körperschaft)

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Buy Now home of his parents(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker 1. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, with a central raised six leaf rosette within a pebbled ring, in turn within a laurel wreath, with crossed swords through the centerpiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked,