Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class Gold Grade, by Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 67mm (width) x 42

67mm (width) x 42

page 6505 and was called up to the Active List upon the outbreak of hostilities the following month

Army Officer/ NCO Breast Eagle - flatwire aluminum machine woven breast eagle

the other missing having been lost to time

He is buried in Arneke British Cemetery

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class Gold Grade, by Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 67mm (width) x 42(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I . Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but