Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude Howard Hampden Burnham was born

Howard Hampden Burnham was born in Toronto

dated Munich

Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Ottawa

as well as combat missions on the Western Front between January 4 and March 1

where he would be part of the RCAF Special Reserve until September 30

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude Howard Hampden Burnham was born(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern). A Maltese cross in silvered tombac, the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center, the reverse plain with a vertical pinback, reverse of pin marked with number 62 for Kerbach & sterhelt, measuring 48. 05 mm (w) x 48. 23 mm (h), and in very fine condition, accompanied by its period