Germany, Wehrmacht. A I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Fritz Zimmermann Newly Listed TeNo Officer’s Overseas Cap Insignia

TeNo Officer’s Overseas Cap Insignia - stylized machine woven eagle

Mellish was taken on strength at the General Depot and commissioned from the ranks on June 13

on original "War ribbon"

London Gazette 7374

two kilometers south of Point Tagan on Matsuwa Island in the Kuriles

Germany, Wehrmacht. A I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Fritz Zimmermann Newly Listed TeNo Officer’s Overseas Cap Insignia(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939 by A. H. (Issued 1939 1945). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain, with a slender banjo style vertical pinback, a barrel hinge, and a flat wire catch, marked 6. for Fritz Zimmermann on the