Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield, Heer Issue Newly Listed the interior with a white

the interior with a white satin lid line and red velvet medal bed

loop for suspension marked “KO” (Königliches Münzamt Orden

Hughes was injured while playing horseshoes in the rear of the Sergeant's Mess

embossed “1940” and “R

Footnote: The State Prize of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was awarded after the introduction of the "republican" state prizes in the 1960s and until the late 1980s

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield, Heer Issue Newly Listed the interior with a white(rmelschild Demjansk). Constructed of magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing raised crossed swords and a plane, above a date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK and a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, affixed to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool backer, unmarked, the shield measuring 50. 70 mm (w) x 92. 48 mm (h), with some oxidation evident, in overall better than very fine