Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords certificate_of_authenticity and was suppressed throughout Austrofascism

and was suppressed throughout Austrofascism and the Nazi period

the reverse plain with a horizontal pinback

then as a Telephone Installer with Northern Electric Company of Montreal

(Paulinenmedaille)

56 mm (w) x 24

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords certificate_of_authenticity and was suppressed throughout Austrofascism(Spanienkreuz in Bronze mit Schwertern). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and with raised Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas joining the quadrants, bearing a central mobile swastika situated within dual rings, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked, measuring 56. 41 mm (w) x 56. 42 mm (h),