Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed on a black wool base

on a black wool base with bright red Waffenfarbe piping

He was struck off strength to the 1st Quebec Regiment at the Canadian Command Depot on March 10

a non-portable example without number

und Sicherungsverbände

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed on a black wool base(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Instituted 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 43.