Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with characteristics of the firm’s

with characteristics of the firm’s Type A pin

Another eight went to foreign recipients

Gold Medal of the Technical University at Brno 1981 (dated September 23

courageously and fearlessly disregarding enemy’s heavy mortar fire

He died five years later

Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with characteristics of the firm’s(Demjanskschild). Constructed of stamped magnetic sheet metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a pair of crossed swords, overlaying a plane and situated above a date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK and a German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by log pillboxes, affixed with four side clips to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner and intact black paper backer,