Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross in Bronze with Swords, Wartime-Compatible Example, by Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude (Kinderlandverschickung Abzeichen)

(Kinderlandverschickung Abzeichen)

affixed with all reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field-grey wool liner indicating Heer (Gebirgsjäger) issue

with the cord fabricated from silver bullion wire wrapped around a white cotton core

reinforcements came from two companies of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as they settled into a position on a sunken road

before his family moved there

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross in Bronze with Swords, Wartime-Compatible Example, by Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude (Kinderlandverschickung Abzeichen)(Spanienkreuz in Bronze mit Schwertern). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with