Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Medal of 508th Motorized Battalion

Medal of 508th Motorized Battalion – Trieste - in bronze

slightly stained along bottom

Footnote: Colin Francis McDonald enlisted as a Private with the Cape Breton Highlanders (F 88280) on June 3

Signals Rating Badge (red

The document is dated to “in the East” on July 10

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Medal of 508th Motorized Battalion(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanlzei code 26 for