A Second War Luftwaffe Veteran's Medal Bar Hold War Merit Cross First Class

War Merit Cross First Class with Swords by Wilhelm Deumer - In silvered tombac

38 with "Prague" clasp

silk lined pale gold (champagne) underside of the cap features a plastic stamp "Verkaufs - Abteilung de Luftwaffe Berlin SW 68" (Luftwaffe Sales Department

He is buried in the Kiel War Cemetery and his death was officially registered with the Province of Manitoba

three months shy of his seventeenth birthday

A Second War Luftwaffe Veteran's Medal Bar Hold War Merit Cross First ClassA Second War Luftwaffe Veteran's Medal Bar War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords (bronze, 47. 3 mm); and Wehrmacht Long Service Badge, 4th Class for Four Years' Loyal Service (silvered tombac, 30 mm, Luftwaffe eagle clasp on ribbon); and Medal to Commemorate 1 October 1938 (bronze, 32 mm, Prague bar on the ribbon). Original ribbons, mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinback, as worn by the veteran, partial silvering loss on the Wehrmacht Badge,