Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, With Case United Republic of (Орден "Свети Александър")

(Орден "Свети Александър")

Gunner Baker was discharged from service twelve years and three days later

from June 1940 to spring of 1941

a Front Cover from the "Winnipeg Free Press" (dated Friday

Annie McIntosh

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, With Case United Republic of (Орден "Свети Александър")(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of silvered bronze, vertical pinback, obverse depicts a Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) bearing a mobile swastika on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field with laurel branch wreath, unmarked, measuring 36. 28 mm (w) x 43. 77 mm (h), weighing 33. 9 grams, accompanied by its period original case, constructed of heavy cardstock with a faux black leather exterior, white satin type lid liner, intact hinge cover,