Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Hold Badge in gilded aluminum

Badge in gilded aluminum

1916 and was awarded a Military Medal

and Medal for the General Mobilization 1914 (in bronze gilt

yellow and blue enamels

measuring 86 cm

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Hold Badge in gilded aluminum(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,