An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class In Its Packet Of Issue Archive At the time of his

At the time of his death in 1957

Numbered “744863”

engraved "Saar 16 / 28529"

Footnote: The British Columbia 1st Depot Battalion was posted to Military District No

the Canadian veteran stated that he used them through the last year of the war in France

An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class In Its Packet Of Issue Archive At the time of hisAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; silver cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened brass core (non magnetic) within a silver ribbed border; on loop for suspension marked 900 for silver content; with its period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower arm;