Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange Archive Both are of fine quality

Both are of fine quality manufacture

Obergefreiter Gottlieb Czech was wounded on April 19

laid a large contact mine filed off the Tyne

the two Second War medals are un-named as issued

Roberts sailed from Montreal

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange Archive Both are of fine quality(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Silber mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei