Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords Newly Listed The Orders of the Rising

The Orders of the Rising Sun in their cases of issue

in zinc with black

Fowles was posted to the 6th Reserve Battalion at the Central Ontario Regimental Depot

Accompanied by its cardboard mailing container

pinback marked “900” for silver content and maker marked “21” for Godet & Co

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords Newly Listed The Orders of the Rising(Spanienkreuz in Bronze mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 April 1939. (1939 issue). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms, with crossed swords piercing the centre, the quadrants joined by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastika, with a central raised mobile swastika set inside dual rings, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked, measuring 56. 47 mm (w) x 55.