Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Volunteer Medal United Republic of Footnote: Thomas Frederick Lawler was

Footnote: Thomas Frederick Lawler was born in Coldwater Ontario in 1897 and worked as a farmer prior to enlisting in the CEF in April 1916

For 24 years of Service

the bestowing of the order was halted

obverse illustrating an Indian woman standing with a jug on her head and a second woman to the right sitting under a palm tree

the exterior bearing a machine-embroidered gold bullion wire inscription of “3

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Volunteer Medal United Republic of Footnote: Thomas Frederick Lawler was(Erinnerungsmedaille fr die spanischen Freiwilligen im Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus). Constructed of gilded zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised sword overlaid by shield bearing Heer and Falange insignia, topped by a Stahlhelm, and above a swastika flanked by laurel leaves, the reverse bearing an inscription o DIVISIN ESPAOLA DE VOLUNTARIOS EN RUSIA (DIVISION OF SPANISH VOLUNTEERS IN