Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot of Medals for Second World War Service Archive third and fourth awards affixed

third and fourth awards affixed to its original ribbon with pinback

soldiers had no head protection other than their cloth and leather caps

1917 lists him as being awarded the Distinguished Service Medal

two overlapping strips in blackened copper wire sewn in place on the right side and terminating with a 21 mm brass button displaying the crowned Romanian coat-of-arms

constructed of artificially darkened aluminum

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot of Medals for Second World War Service Archive third and fourth awards affixed(Medaillen). A mixed lot of medals for Second World War service, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 11 mm in diameter, weighing 13. 6 grams, in better than very fine