Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold to form the 17th/21st Lancers

to form the 17th/21st Lancers

2 mm (w) x 82 mm (h)

Klimenko went to Canada and signed his RCAF Attestation Paper on September 24

Myers was employed at the Reed Machinery Company in York

Though not a qualification badge

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold to form the 17th/21st Lancers(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, attached with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, the reverse retaining a partially intact black paper liner bearing the makers mark