Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Hold Ontario on July 11

Ontario on July 11

residue of collector’s mounting

The Swiss-born Major-General Louis de Watteville was appointed commander of the Montreal District on September 17th

all five with enamels

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Hold Ontario on July 11(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,