Germany, Wehrmacht. A Krim Shield Archive Gardiner was elected as the

Gardiner was elected as the Rhode Island Society's Assistant Secretary

-COLONEL / GRADICHNIK FERDO" and inscribed "ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE GUERRE" below

holding the rank of Sergeant in his final year and graduated as a Lieutenant on June 26

award document to Unteroffizier Heinz Wolski

Footnote: Lester Phair Hurd was born on May 26

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Krim Shield Archive Gardiner was elected as the(rmelschild Krim). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a map of the Crimean Peninsula and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with two reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool backer, unmarked, the shield measuring 51. 75 mm (w) x 61. 27 mm (h), missing two of its reverse prongs, in