Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Linden of Lüdenscheid - 3rd Pattern with Crimped Hardware and Fluted Pin Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic topped by a crown suspension

topped by a crown suspension culminating in a loop retaining an original ribbon

Personnel did not eat off base for sanitary reasons

Footnote: Alexander Hutcheon was born in Dundee Scotland in November 1890 and was working as a Millwright in Brantford

some creasing and scuffing at the edges and minor discolouration

Second pattern circa 1938

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Linden of Lüdenscheid - 3rd Pattern with Crimped Hardware and Fluted Pin Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic topped by a crown suspension(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Instituted November 25th, 1942 (Mid to Late War Issue). A vaulted example, constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade situated over a hollow void, flanked on each side by four oak leaves and sun rays interspersed with two acorns, the reverse with a magnetic square block