Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold A cross pattee of multi-piece

A cross pattee of multi-piece construction with a black onyx core decorated with a red and white enameled Geneva cross

on a tan/khaki-coloured rayon base

and exhibits 100% of its original factory darkening

Meyer spent nine months at the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz

WWI New York State War Service Medal 1917-1919 - Bronze

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold A cross pattee of multi-piece(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, attached with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, the reverse retaining a partially intact black paper liner bearing the makers mark