Germany, Heer. A Kuban Shield, by Karl Wurster Archive credited with having served one

credited with having served one year and two months in the RCAF

obverse illustrating an embossed winged man (Icarus) in flight

edge knock to reverse edge at 7 o’clock over the R in Regt

marked "BRONZE" and dated "1976" on the edge

Levant Campaign Medal (in bronze gilt

Germany, Heer. A Kuban Shield, by Karl Wurster Archive credited with having served one(Heer Kubanschild). Constructed of bronze, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a stylized map of the Kuban region, topped by an inscription of KUBAN and a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by a date of 1943, affixed with all four reverse prongs to a non magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner and intact black paper backer, without visible marks but demonstrating the characteristics of