Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 5Th Don Cossacks Regiment Cross consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac It concludes with five Appendices

It concludes with five Appendices

Sometime between his signing at Valcartier Camp and his posting to the CEF Divisional Ammunition Column at West Down

although led by local German Officer cadre

joining the PPCLI in the field on the 28th

where it was noted that his "heart (was) enlarged"

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 5Th Don Cossacks Regiment Cross consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac It concludes with five Appendices(Wehrmacht Kreuz des 5. Don Kosaken Reiter Regiments). Constructed of aluminum, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse trimmed with a depressed and blackened border, bearing a central raised mobile swastika, the three and nine oclock arms bearing a raised Cyrillic inscription of (KONONOV, for Ivan Nikitich Kononov), the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 5, the six oclock arm bearing a raised date of 28. X. 1941, with crossed swords piercing