Medals & Combat Clasp Recovered From The Bombed Zimmerman Factory Hold light enamel wear

light enamel wear

He was awarded the DSM on June 30

These include a wound from a grenade to his head which led to a silver plate being inserted in the crown of his skull in September 1939

The Battalion served in France and Belgium with the 5th Infantry Brigade

Medals & Combat Clasp Recovered From The Bombed Zimmerman Factory Hold light enamel wearRecovered from the Zimmermann Factory; War Merit 2nd Class with Swords; Iron Cross 1st Class 1939 (3 pieces); Close Combat Clasp, fire damaged. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German as well as International, that was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime during the 1990's, during construction on the former factory site, a quantity of medals was