Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case GTRexclude 5/1ST SCO:DIV:R

5/1ST SCO:DIV:R

An example of a gold grade “Verwundetenabzeichen”

at the age of 79 and is buried next to his wife

The fund was primarily administered through the United States Consular Service (now the United States Foreign Service)

After attending the Hanover War School in 1936

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case GTRexclude 5/1ST SCO:DIV:R(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 38 mm (w) x 44. 48 mm (h),