Germany, Heer. A Pair of Eastern Front Campaign Shields Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Royal Red Cross

Footnote: The Royal Red Cross was established on April 27

dated “1866” in gilt numbers

Bruising evident on the Silver Grade medal

He was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst

1867 in Dörmitz (northern Germany)

Germany, Heer. A Pair of Eastern Front Campaign Shields Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Royal Red Cross(Heer rmelschilder). A pair of Eastern Front campaign shields, including: 1. A Krim Shield, constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, the reverse retaining all four attachment prongs, affixing the shield to a zink backplate with a field grey wool liner and intact light brown paper