Description
Manitoba with the 32nd Battalion "Manitoba and Saskatchewan Regiment"
Gehlken’s town of birth
signed by a Gauleiter
This is a typical Wehrmacht Flak/Artillery Parade Waffenrock NCO’s visor cap constructed of fine quality Mützen-Trikot (cap tricot) with a fine twill weave (Körperbindung) pattern of parallel running ribs
O’Connor believed that Canadians who wore the red chevron were too easily mistaken for “Mons heroes” by British civilians
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich Franz Merit Medal In Silver Newly Listed Manitoba with the 32nd Battalion(Verdienstmedaille in Silber). Instituted 28 February 1859 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. (1859 1872 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a rightward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with an inscription of DEM VERDIENSTE, within an oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 40. 88 mm in diameter, weighing 30. 0 grams, minor