Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class GTRexclude For 16 Years

For 16 Years

large piece of the brown paper backer missing

In Sept 1942 he was a Feldwebel with 6

Red Cross Medal of Appreciation - 1st Class

(Ehrenzeichen vom Roten Kreuz Silber Medaille)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class GTRexclude For 16 Years(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting an elongated flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 84 mm (w) x 43.