Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, Early Variant Newly Listed the brown cotton underside exhibiting

the brown cotton underside exhibiting extensive wear and fabric loss overall

Once Blondeel learned that the dropping of the first group had gone well

(Waffen-SS Kantine Schüssel)

Several names are decipherable

I rejoined the remnant of out Regiment

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, Early Variant Newly Listed the brown cotton underside exhibiting(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)