Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Merit Decoration, I Class In Gold, With Case Archive A fine quality Auxiliary Police

A fine quality Auxiliary Police cap eagle

Private Romeo Benoit was Killed in Action during this offensive

His term of office (November 12

a Telephonist sleeve badge

Kent on May 6

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Merit Decoration, I Class In Gold, With Case Archive A fine quality Auxiliary Police(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central raised rosette set within a circular laurel leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with ribbed inner and outer edges, the reverse with a barrel hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 96 mm (w) x 49. 73 mm (h),