Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, Silver Grade, II Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 6 inclusive of its thunderbolts

6 inclusive of its thunderbolts

" He was also posthumously awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold

in retreat until 1945

affixed to a bronze backplate with horizontal pinback and an original ribbon

1/RL HIGHRS

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, Silver Grade, II Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 6 inclusive of its thunderbolts(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker II. Klasse Silber ohne Schwerter). Constructed of silvered zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel wreath, unmarked, measuring 39. 98 mm (w) x 45. 00 mm (h), weighing 14. 0 grams (inclusive of ribbon), in better than very fine