Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii Class With Swords, By Otto Schickle GTRexclude was named a Captain in

was named a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps and resigned his commission in that rank

During the first half of 1942 it was stationed in the vicinity of Sevastopol

III Class (in bronze

Footnote: The Battalion was raised in the Nipissing and Sudbury areas of Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Haileybury under the authority of G

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii Class With Swords, By Otto Schickle GTRexclude was named a Captain in(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centre, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L15 for Otto Schickle, Pforzheim, measuring 48. 18 mm (w) x 47. 88 mm (h), weighing 19. 1 grams, with loss of