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

Correspondence from His Mother to the Canadian Army

(Auszeichnungen mit Gürtelschnalle)

was a further three kilometres to the south of the town

the other diagonally on his back and secured from flapping to the waist belt by the strap on the right side

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

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