with gilded crossed swords piercing the centre
a brass button bearing a crossed sword and baton within an open-ended wreath affixed at the top
the base offers a black velvet recessed medal bed
He signed his CEF Attestation Paper as a Private with the 77th Infantry Battalion "Ottawa Battalion" on November 1
lid embossed “Ehrengabe der Stadt Neuss”
Spain, Nationalist State. A "Blue Division" Medal for the Campaign in Russia 1943, Boxed consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with gilded crossed swords piercing(Medalla de la Divisin Azul por la Campaa en Rusia). Instituted in 1943. In silvered bronze with black enamels, manufactured by Diez y Compania, S. A. of Madrid, obverse illustrating the Nationalist Eagle of Spain with an Iron Cross bearing a swastika, above the Falange symbol, the eagle backed by a laurel wreath and surmounted by the Franco crown, reverse illustrating the Novgorod's Kremlin surrounded by a wreath of chains and inscribed "RUSIA 1941"
