Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold Newly Listed measuring 80 mm (w) x

measuring 80 mm (w) x 80 mm (l) x 20 mm (h)

but Howie was fatally wounded by a mortar shell explosion

He is commemorated on page 586 of the First World War Book of Remembrance and is buried in Archangel Allied Cemetery

a Silver Star Medal is awarded to the following enlisted man: THOMAS E

before being sent to the United States

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold Newly Listed measuring 80 mm (w) x(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 91 mm (w) x