as part of the 1st Canadian Division
both straps adjusted with functional silvered zink buckles decorated with oak leaves
and United States: Legion of Merit
the reverse inscribed “Viruti” (Latin - Virtue)
bearing a machine-embroidered off-white Luftwaffe-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by C.E. Juncker Hold as part of the 1st(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Tte). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked but