Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac he would be posted to

he would be posted to multiple locations in Canada

followed by postings with the Destroyer HMS Wivern and the Sloop HMS Laburnham in New Zealand

attributed to Lieutenant Herbert Howard Snowden Fowler

measuring 45 mm (w) x 28 mm (h)

which is finished in a glossed black on the obverse and in a matte brown on the reverse

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac he would be posted to( Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN