Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Newly Listed /Pioneer Replacement Battalion 3 identification

/Pioneer Replacement Battalion 3 identification tag

The fourth picture shows him as a flying instructor in 1932

framed by two conjoined branches of linden leaves on the front

McLarty was transferred to the Royal Canadian Regiment

and they fought almost to the last man

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Newly Listed /Pioneer Replacement Battalion 3 identification(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronze zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, with a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four acorns and sun rays with dual acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, bearing the remnants of a designer mark of