Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Issue Narvik Campaign Shield Archive Correspondence from His Mother to

Correspondence from His Mother to the Canadian Army

moved to Chicago

Footnote: According to the file present in the Bundesarchiv Second World War casualty database

twelve with a vertical pinback

1945 in London

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Issue Narvik Campaign Shield Archive Correspondence from His Mother to(Narvikschild). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised propeller, anchor, and edelweiss, symbolizing the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, and Gebirgsjger (Heer) respectively, topped by a date of 1940, an inscription of NARVIK, and a German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed swastika, the reverse cloth backer added replaced after the war, with two of the attachment prongs broken off, measuring 55 mm (w) x