Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, Early Variant Newly Listed the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered white Bann number of “491”

Serving Brother Breast Badge (two-piece construction

where he would complete his training aboard Anson

Naming is officially engraved on the ED

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, Early Variant Newly Listed the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse Silber mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 75 mm (w)