Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Fritz Zimmermann Newly Listed for four years of service

for four years of service in the Luftwaffe

later obtaining the ranks of Ordinary Seaman and Able Seaman

obverse illustrating the right-facing conjoined busts of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

then transferred to England and taken on strength at the Canadian Casualty Assembly Centre on August 17

ornate locking clip and chain attached to the hanger

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Fritz Zimmermann Newly Listed for four years of service(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core inside of a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback marked with code 6 for maker Fritz Zimmermann,