Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By C.e. Juncker certificate_of_authenticity Scipione Borghese

Scipione Borghese

11016927 Staff Sergeant (Gunner) Richard Gerald Salsbury and 34352519 Staff Sergeant (Armored Gunner) Eldon Legrant

MacKinnon placing a wreath around Hawkins' grave cross on Tarawa

dated March 1944

First Class - Type III

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By C.e. Juncker certificate_of_authenticity Scipione Borghese(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, with a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by sun rays and four oak leaves with acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked PEEKHAUS, BERLIN and maker marked