Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann Hold stamped BRILL / ANDREW J

stamped BRILL / ANDREW J

trimmed in aluminum wire with black thread highlights

I have been employed for four years on work connected with automatic guns and although I have never been actually instructed that the clearance of guns before removal from the range is my responsbility at this School

inscribed "The Citizens of Hargrave Community / To Cpl

the obverse bearing a double-stamped inscription of “1

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann Hold stamped BRILL / ANDREW J(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