Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Silver Grade With Swords, By Paul Meybauer Hold measuring 87 mm (w) x

measuring 87 mm (w) x 52 mm (h)

then posted to the 1st Canadian Engineer Reserve Battalion on January 22nd

Those issued to Officer’s like in this case are rare

a post he was to hold for the next twenty years

A certificate awarding the honour name “Banake”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Silver Grade With Swords, By Paul Meybauer Hold measuring 87 mm (w) x(Spanienkreuz in Silber mit Schwertern). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central mobile swastika set within double rings, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, each quadrant joined by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Paul Meybauer, Berlin, measuring