This could mean that he was demobilzed
In his Department of Pensions and National Health Service Interview Summary
measuring 205 mm (w) x 136 mm (h)
Accompanied by a 215 mm x 267 mm screen-printed on cloth colour photograph of Reid in his Legion jacket with "X POW" visible on his personalized Ontario licence plate
with the word Afrika in a block script
Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case Auction Archive This could mean that he(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 48. 67 mm (w) x 48. 72 mm (h), weighing 24. 1 grams, accompanied by its period original