Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords Hold Officer Commanding at Seaford

Officer Commanding at Seaford

before being transferred to the RCAF Station at Dartmouth

USS Yankee sighted a steamer lying in Casilda harbor closely fitting the description of Purissima Concepcion

the obverse centre bearing a sprig of three oak leaves and the 6 o’clock arm bearing the date “1939”

A fine example of an Order of Merit Silver Cross of Merit

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords Hold Officer Commanding at Seaford(Spanienkreuz in Bronze mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 April 1939. (1939 issue). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central mobile swastika within dual rings, with crossed swords through the centerpiece, the swords overlaid by raised Wehrmacht eagles clutching mobile swastikas, the wings of the eagles joining the quadrants of each arm, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering