having achieved the Rifle Marksman Qualification Badge
narrow suspension (CHARLES REID
surrounded by a blue enamel ring inscribed THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE
Footnote: Thomas Hollowell was born on September 16
which is attached to the wrap by machine stitching at the outer edge and by a reinforced buttonhole meeting a pebbled zink button on the interior edge
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot of Decorations Newly Listed having achieved the Rifle Marksman(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of decorations, including: 1 A War Merit Medal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 22 mm in diameter, in very fine condition. 2. A War Merit Cross II Class, constructed of bronzed zink, on