A Third Reich Period German Defence Wall (West Wall) Medal Archive dated May 20

dated May 20

Virginia National Guard Legion of Merit

The ensuing campaign to suppress Riel

The unit was then sent to the front in Transvaal and the Orange Free State until the end of the war in May 1902

two Veteran’s medals

A Third Reich Period German Defence Wall (West Wall) Medal Archive dated May 20A third reich period Deutsches Schutzwall Ehrenzeichen; oval bronze; on a loop for suspension (unmarked); with its correct replacement ribbon; the obverse with a crossed shovel and sword in the centre, and a concrete pillbox bunker directly below, as well as with the German national eagle above, all within an oak leaf wreath; the reverse inscribed Fr Arbeit zum schutze Deutschlands (For labour for the protection of Germany) within an oak wreath;