Germany, Wehrmacht. A Kuban Shield, Luftwaffe Issue Auction to the 1st Infantry Battalion

to the 1st Infantry Battalion for service in the French theatre

Royal Canadian Air Force Belt Buckle (in bronze gilt

and that he did not believe in inaction" [source: Hilder papers]

Canadian Field Artillery in the field on the 22nd

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Kuban Shield, Luftwaffe Issue Auction to the 1st Infantry Battalion(rmelschild Kuban). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse bearing a stylized map of the Kuban region, topped by an inscription of KUBAN and a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1943, fixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a dark grey wool backer, unmarked, the shield measuring 52. 00 mm (w) x 61. 93 mm (h), with some oxidation evident to the shield, in