Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden certificate_of_authenticity with a green wool backer

with a green wool backer

1944 Fessmann was killed in action by a tank grenade near Tilsit (Sovetsk) in the Courland pocket

A Third Reich period Strength through Joy/Kraft durch Freude Gau-Baden badge

he was transferred as a reinforcement to the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and proceeded overseas to the French theatre on March 24

Chatham on August 15

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden certificate_of_authenticity with a green wool backer(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse with a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a bayonet and stick grenade, within a square oak leaf wreath, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, and with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a magnetic metal centerpiece backer, the