Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Newly Listed reverse centre with a white

reverse centre with a white enameled field presenting Anno 1847 for Pius IX

constructed of metal (magnetic) and a lightly faded black/white photograph

with two holes for uniform attachment

Footnote: Albert Graydon Fairbank was born on December 5

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, Gold Grade, I Class With Swords Newly Listed reverse centre with a white(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker 1. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, with a central raised six leaf rosette within a pebbled ring, in turn within a laurel wreath, with crossed swords through the centerpiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked,