Germany, Wehrmacht. A West Wall Medal United Republic of Seventeen members of the Royal

Seventeen members of the Royal Navy and twenty-seven Royal Marines who helped man the Nile gunboats also received the medal

joining them in the field on March 9th

illustrating the Prussian eagle topped by the Imperial crown

accompanied by a 61 mm (w) x 30

with slight dent to tip

Germany, Wehrmacht. A West Wall Medal United Republic of Seventeen members of the Royal(Deutsches Schutzwall Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 2 August 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a raised pillbox topped by a crossed shovel and sword and a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR ARBEIT ZUM SCHUTZE DEUTSCHLANDS (FOR WORK IN THE DEFENCE OF GERMANY),