Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Anthon Schenkls Nachfolger Newly Listed and Military Order Guards (bronze

and Military Order Guards (bronze gilt with blue

with slightly detached and repaired centrepiece and toned silver

he crossed enemy lines at 21

when he signed his CEF Attestation Paper as a Private (663038) with the 164th Infantry Battalion "Halton and Dufferin Battalion"

Dark patina on both pieces

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Anthon Schenkls Nachfolger Newly Listed and Military Order Guards (bronze(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six o'clock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop