Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Awards for Customs and Second World War Service, with Matching Ribbon Bar consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 27 mm x 30

measuring 27 mm x 30 mm

Cherry red burlap-patterned exterior

He is also commemorated on page 389 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

He was officially discharged from the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the rank of Lance Corporal

scattered paint wear on the arms

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Awards for Customs and Second World War Service, with Matching Ribbon Bar consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 27 mm x 30(Auszeichnungen). A pair of awards, including: 1 A War Merit Cross II Class with Swords, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, unmarked, measuring 52. 52 mm (w) x 52. 65 mm (h), weighing 21. 0 grams, in near