Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare War Commemorative Medal Of 1939/1940 Buy Now and Metz bars

and Metz bars

The guardian is probably a teacher of Gehlken

a Nationalsozialistiche Kulturgemeinde (National Socialist Culture Community) badge

He was invalided to England and posted to the Manitoba Regimental Depot on October 4th

marked with the zolotniki fineness number "56" (14K Gold) beside the kokoshnik mark and maker mark "AP" (Aleksandr Vasilyevitch Romanov

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare War Commemorative Medal Of 1939/1940 Buy Now and Metz bars(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den Krieg 1939 1940). Constructed of blackened iron, on loop for suspension, the obverse with a raised Cross Patte overlaid by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1939 and 1940, the reverse with an inscrption of DEN KMPFERN FR DIE DEUTSCHE FREIHEIT (TO THE FIGHTERS FOR THE FREEDOM OF GERMANY), unmarked, measuring 32. 39 mm in diameter, weighing 15. 4 grams, in near extremely fine