Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Medal Of Merit With Swords, By The Vienna Mint Auction Archive of fine quality Austrian manufacture

of fine quality Austrian manufacture (unmarked

the capital of Manitoba was a small centre separated from Ontario by the rocks and forests of the Canadian Shield region

serving almost thirty-eight and a half years with the Royal Canadian Navy

the reverse presents a beached landing craft

dated February

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Medal Of Merit With Swords, By The Vienna Mint Auction Archive of fine quality Austrian manufacture(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, Silberne Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross, with its quadrants joined by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastika, the twelve oclock position bearing crossed swords, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEUTSCHE VERDIENST