An Ethiopian Eritrean Medal Of Haile Selassie I, Bronze Grade Hold The 17th SS Panzer Grenadier

The 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division was tasked with reducing the Allied beachhead after the landing in Normandy

Croatian made

Unresearched

all convalescents

he was struck off strength to the 3rd Battalion

An Ethiopian Eritrean Medal Of Haile Selassie I, Bronze Grade Hold The 17th SS Panzer GrenadierBronze, 40. 7 mm x 58 mm, five bronze torches indicating later engagements affixed to its original ribbon, indentation on the reverse, contact marks, very fine. Footnote: Eritrea was joined in federation with Ethiopia after the Second World War but in 1960, the Eritrean parliament voted unanimously for independence. There followed a long and bitter war for independence that ended only in 1991. Eritrea became independent on May 24, 1993 but war broke