Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive central disk in bronze and

central disk in bronze and voided

(Orden De La Republica Espanola) Instituted 21 July 1932

EVIIR cypher

He is documented in his medical records as having been "seriously gassed at Ypres but carried on for thirty days

(Zerstörergeschwader 26 "Horst Wessel" Ärmelband)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive central disk in bronze and(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B.