Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Service Awards GTRexclude and flanked by clusters of

and flanked by clusters of laurel and oak leaves

Ambassador Taylor decided to smuggle them out of Iran on Canadian passports

where he was posted to "E" Wing at the Canadian Concentration Camp

who was court medalist and director of the Imperial Mint at Vienna in 1834

Poland) in 1911 and was first commissioned as an officer in the 1st Uhlan Regiment

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Service Awards GTRexclude and flanked by clusters of(Auszeichnungen). A pair of service awards, including: 1 A War merit Medal, 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 an inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 18 mm in diameter, weighing 13. 9 grams, in extremely fine condition. 2. A Civil Service 40