Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot Of Medals Buy Now 17 (w) x 25

17 (w) x 25

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (6586) with the 1st Infantry Battalion "Ontario Regiment"

issued in Berlin on 14 November 1939

All of the original burial sites on Tarawa Atoll were disinterred in 1946 and concentrated in a group burial in the Lone Palm Cemetery on Betio Island

5 mm (w) x 91

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot Of Medals Buy Now 17 (w) x 25(Medaillen). A mixed lot of five medals, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGS VERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 19 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 6 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A War Merit Cross