Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wilhelm Deumer United Republic of the matching boutonniere consisting of

the matching boutonniere consisting of a bow-tied ribbon attached to a black bakelite button

re-ribboned

Last Pay Certificate and London Gazette page with his Military Cross citation

addressed to Vice Sergeant of the Reserve and probationary judge Rumpel in Gräfenthal (eastern Germany)

the reverse presents a circular central medallion depicting the royal cipher of Kaiser Wilhelm I

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wilhelm Deumer United Republic of the matching boutonniere consisting of(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the reverse marked with code L 11 for maker Wilhelm