Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Maria Schenkl/Anton Schenkls Nachfolger Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and finished with reinforced button

and finished with reinforced button holes over pebbled magnetic metal buttons

2 CO: BUFFALO VOL: RIF:

Captain Mitchell's widow attended the ceremonies with her parents

and brother Jim Upton of Montreal

the obverse with a central crowned Royal Monogram of Friedrich Wilhelm III

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Maria Schenkl/Anton Schenkls Nachfolger Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and finished with reinforced button(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, the suspension loop