Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Patriotic War, I Class to Platoon Commander Alexey Patuev, for Military Courage, 1945 Archive WWI Handmade Canadian Machine Gun

WWI Handmade Canadian Machine Gun Shoulder Flashes - Hand fabricated in brass

77 mm x 38

corner of the Goodwins

wire was often attached by means of small collar hooks

Cambridge in 1907

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Patriotic War, I Class to Platoon Commander Alexey Patuev, for Military Courage, 1945 Archive WWI Handmade Canadian Machine Gun( Orden Otechestvennoy Voyny). Instituted May 20th, 1942. (c. 1943 issue). Of three piece construction of Gold, silver, and gilded silver, consisting of a red enamelled five pointed star with Gold straight rays (denoting I Class) as well as a crossed saber and Mosin rifle in between the arms of the cross, with a central circular red enamelled medallion bearing a crossed Hammer and Sickle insignia in Gold, surrounded by a white enamelled ring inscribed