Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac to acknowledge the unique contribution

to acknowledge the unique contribution to peace that Canadian peacekeepers have made since 1947

disembarking the United Kingdom on September 13

while in service between February 1941 and August 1946

loss of gilt on swords

he was issued a dog tag having the inscription 2

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac to acknowledge the unique contribution(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Silber ohne Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a crimped hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a