Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield, Army Issue Auction Ralph Welcome Baker was a

Ralph Welcome Baker was a resident of Big Spring

Throughout 1940 and 1941

He was documented in an article in the Ottawa Journal on November 30

Of high quality typical to this maker

printed in gold-coloured ink with the Croatian maker mark "Radionica svih vrsti kapa J

Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield, Army Issue Auction Ralph Welcome Baker was a(rmelschild Demjansk). Constructed of silvered feinzink, affixed with four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate and field grey wool twill backer, the obverse consisting of a shield with crossed swords, topped by a plane and above a raised date of 1942, in turn topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK and a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by log pillboxes, unmarked, the shield measuring 51. 95 mm (w) x