Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield Auction three and a half weeks

three and a half weeks shy of his thirtieth birthday

Silver Medal bearing 1914-1918 on obverse with bust of King George V on reverse

demonstrating minor flecking throughout the enamels with minor surface chipping (particularly to the obverse six o’clock arm and reverse central medallion)

European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (bronze

The 308th Cavalry with chipping and repair evident in the yellow enamels

Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield Auction three and a half weeks(rmelschild Demjansk). Constructed of magnetic steel, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a pair of crossed swords overlaying a plane, situated above a date of 1942, and topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK with a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by log pillboxes, affixed with all four original attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate, retaining a field grey wool liner and intact black paper