Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade Auction Archive Shanks is remembered with honour

Shanks is remembered with honour at Oxford (Botley) Cemetery

captioned photographs

measuring 34 mm (w) x 50 mm (h)

he attended a number of courses and changed his next-of-kin contact to Miss Daphne L

in Puerto Rico and on the home front

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade Auction Archive Shanks is remembered with honour(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse with a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, on top of a magnetic backplate, 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,