A Kriegsmarine Narvik Campaign Shield Hold Footnote: Russell Avery was born

Footnote: Russell Avery was born in 1887 in Murillo Ontario and was working as a Clerk in Carington Ontario prior to enlisting in the CEf in September 1917

on parade ribbon

(Nationalsocialistisches Kraftfahr-Korps = NSKK): Brown

Colonel Commanding (1929)

He was discharged from the RCAF

A Kriegsmarine Narvik Campaign Shield Hold Footnote: Russell Avery was bornA Narvik Schild; constructed of stamped gilt feinzink; the shield featuring national eagle with swooped down wings, clutching a wreathed swastika; inscribed Narvik in capital letters, with an Edelweiss flower (representing the Heer) in the center between the date 1940 and a crossed anchor (representing the Kriegsmarine) and propeller (representing the Luftwaffe) on the obverse; three of its four prongs intact on the reverse; unmarked; measuring 90 mm