Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Newly Listed reverse centre with a white

reverse centre with a white enameled field presenting Anno 1847 for Pius IX

Footnote: Albert Graydon Fairbank was born on December 5

constructed of metal (magnetic) and a lightly faded black/white photograph

along with a ribbon bar of the Silver Star and Purple Heart beside the two awards on his left breast

the obverse of each bearing a Fraktur letter “E” and number “3” with silver aluminum wire tresses bisected by a field-grey band

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Newly Listed reverse centre with a white(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker 1. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, with a central raised six leaf rosette within a pebbled ring, in turn within a laurel wreath, with crossed swords through the centerpiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked,