Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, With Case Auction Archive Layforce II

Layforce II

his grave marker designating him as "CANADIAN PIONEERS"

Constructed of brass with stamped face plate depicting royal crown inside ribbed border bearing oak leaves and raised inscription “GOTT MIT UNS” (“God with us”)

and Order of Bravery (in bronze gilt

each with a silvered

Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, With Case Auction Archive Layforce II(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille mit Etui). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a central Olympic column overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, topped by Olympics rings, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN