Aylward was struck off strength of the Overseas Military Forces of Canada
stating that he had fifteen years' previous service with the Canadian Garrison Artillery in St
1938 just two weeks after the Anschluss of Austria
obverse with the right-facing bust of Louis XV
Medal Awards Cards
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Medals Auction Archive Aylward was struck off strength(Medaillen). A mixed lot of medals, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 18 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 6 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A Sudetenland Medal,