A First War & War Merit Cross Grouping Archive having no chance to defend

having no chance to defend himself from enemy fire

Quebec in 1885 and was working as a Mechanic before he enlisted in June 1916 with previous military experience with the 55th Irish Canadian Rangers

with many others in the background and a bicycle in the foreground

the upper without interruptions in the fabric

but not before being stripped naked by order of the ship

A First War & War Merit Cross Grouping Archive having no chance to defendPrussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, with iron core, magnetic, maker marked "EW" (unknown) on the ring, 42. 8 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (iron with a bronze coloured gilt, magnetic, unmarked, 37. 3 mm); and Third Reich: War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords (bronzed tombac, 48 mm). Mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinback, as worn by the veteran, original ribbons, crossed bronze swords on the HC ribbon, surface