Description
two Collar Badges (in bronze
1943 when he failed to return to his organization after contact with the enemy on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands" and "unless definite information regarding your son's fate and whereabouts is obtained
Born in 1902 into a Lutheran Protestant family
Spanish American War Badge (silver
Footnote: Private George Alfred Swaddling
Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal GTRexclude two Collar Badges (in bronze(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille 1936). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspension, the obverse bearing a central column overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1936, and topped by Olympic rings, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN (FOR MERITORIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE OLYMPICS GAMES OF 1936), measuring 37. 29 mm in