Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Third Pattern by Friedirch Linden GTRexclude 8 pages with portrait picture

8 pages with portrait picture

the obverse bearing raised and leftward-facing profiles of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin

France on October 26

He was residing in Saskatchewan and working as a teamster when he enlisted on March 29

painted in grey

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Third Pattern by Friedirch Linden GTRexclude 8 pages with portrait picture(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, overlaying a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and wide banjo style pinback (in this makers characteristic fat belly style) meeting a