A Geschwader Horst Wessel Enlisted ranks title
all two out of three sets of prongs broken off
but since 1934 has been banned from wearing this award on the uniform
arriving in the United States on April 23rd
Footnote: Basil Edwin Rys Jones was born at Robertson
Germany, Third Reich. A Lapland and Murmansk Arctic Operations Cross Hold A Geschwader Horst Wessel Enlisted(Nordfront Kreuz). Constructed of silvered bronze with blue, white, red, and black enamels, consisting of a blue enameled Cross Patte with a central white enameled field bearing the Finnish and National Socialist flag and a Finnish lion, along with the dates 1941 43, with a silvered swastika in the background marked with the territories where fighting took place Ukhtua, Kestinga, Salla, Pechenga, the reverse plain, with a knurled stud for a screwback