Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint War Merit Medal Auction Archive Footnote: The French Foreign Legion

Footnote: The French Foreign Legion was created in 1831 to allow the incorporation of foreign nationals into the French Army

unmarked however exhibiting the manufacturing characteristics of the Danish royal goldsmith Poul (Paul) Kurtz

with its retaining spring

with American and British cannon fire reigning down

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint War Merit Medal Auction Archive Footnote: The French Foreign Legion(Kriegsverdienstmedaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGS VERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. mm in diameter, weighing aprox. 13 grams, in near mint condition.