Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Kriegsmarine Issue Narvik Shield Newly Listed with a gun shot wound

with a gun shot wound to his left arm but it was later upgraded to "reported from base in error"

Manitoba on May 12th

(Bandenkampfabzeichen in Bronze)

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Gunner (248593) with the Howitzer Ammunition Column

now in order to prevent another attack like this

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Kriegsmarine Issue Narvik Shield Newly Listed with a gun shot wound(Kriegsmarine Narvikschild). Constructed of gilded zink, obverse depicting shield with central Edelweiss (representing Heer Gebirgsjger), propeller (representing the Luftwaffe), and anchor (representing the Kriegsmarine), underneath date of 1940, underneath inscription of NARVIK, topped by a Wehrmacht style German national eagle clutching a wreathed swastika, with four reverse attachment prongs securing the shield to a black wool backer, unmarked,