Germany, Wehrmacht. A West Wall Medal United Republic of Seventeen members of the Royal

Seventeen members of the Royal Navy and twenty-seven Royal Marines who helped man the Nile gunboats also received the medal

reverse illustrating a taeguk

oxidation spot evident on the screwback

with slight dent to tip

signing his Permanent Active Air Force Attestation Paper on April 21

Germany, Wehrmacht. A West Wall Medal United Republic of Seventeen members of the Royal(Deutsches Schutzwall Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 2 August 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a raised pillbox topped by a crossed shovel and sword and a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR ARBEIT ZUM SCHUTZE DEUTSCHLANDS (FOR WORK IN THE DEFENCE OF GERMANY),