Germany, SS. A Mint 1939 Yule Festival Table Medal to Oberabschnitt Ost, by Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with all four fastening screws

with all four fastening screws present

before returning to duty on April 12th

Pennsylvania World War Service Medal 1917-1918 (bronze

with silver "K" on the ribbon (as issued to officers)

The Battalion sailed from Halifax

Germany, SS. A Mint 1939 Yule Festival Table Medal to Oberabschnitt Ost, by Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with all four fastening screws(SS Julfest 1939 Erinnerungsmedaille). Constructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a raised SS style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of JULFEST 1939 with oak leaves, the reverse bearing a raised dedication of DIE SCHWARZE GARDE SS OBERABSCHNITT OST (THE BLACK GUARD OF SS MAIN DISTRICT EAST), maker marked DESCHLER & SOHN for the famous Munich based medal firm, measuring 55 mm in diameter and