Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Metall und Kunststoff consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 15 March 1943)

15 March 1943)

He was buried two days later in a civil cemetery in Huijbergen and then re-interred after the war in the Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands

14K Gold with blue enamels

which included eights months' Federal Service from June 18

A First War Victory Medal to the Army Cyclist Corps - (18989 PTE

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Metall und Kunststoff consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 15 March 1943)(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a swastika, overlaid by a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, situated above a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with an integral hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from a crimped base, designer