Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Issue Narvik Campaign Shield Archive reverse engraved “No 17206 WARREN

reverse engraved “No 17206 WARREN H

was a further three kilometres to the south of the town

Correspondence from His Mother to the Canadian Army

(1834-1890 issue)

Footnote: According to the file present in the Bundesarchiv Second World War casualty database

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Issue Narvik Campaign Shield Archive reverse engraved “No 17206 WARREN(Narvikschild). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised propeller, anchor, and edelweiss, symbolizing the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, and Gebirgsjger (Heer) respectively, topped by a date of 1940, an inscription of NARVIK, and a German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed swastika, the reverse cloth backer added replaced after the war, with two of the attachment prongs broken off, measuring 55 mm (w) x