Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Round 3 Version, by Deschler & Sohn Auction Fleet Marine Forces

Fleet Marine Forces

inscribed "TO COMMEMORATE THEIR MAJESTIES CORONATION" above and "CROWNED 1911" below

accompanied by a wartime photo and copies of the pages of his Soldbuch

Commemorative Military Cross of the Ukrainian Galician Army (AKA Galician Cross) (number stamped "6484")

Hughes enlisted with the Coldstream Guards

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Round 3 Version, by Deschler & Sohn Auction Fleet Marine Forces(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 but