Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed overlaid by red wool

overlaid by red wool

LOTHRINGISCHEN JNFANTERIE-REGIMENTS No 174

with a separately applied elaborate green enameled cross with a small parallelogram at the tip of each arm ordained with nine paste stones

He was later placed "on command" to the 2nd Canadian Command Depot at Witley on November 16th

Type I (1938-1942) (Cruze de Guerra)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed overlaid by red wool(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring