Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive with thick red fabric underneath

with thick red fabric underneath

in POW camp 23 in Monteith

centre with blue and red enamels

He continued Militia service in Toronto and served from 1947 through 1963 in 8 Signal Regiment

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive with thick red fabric underneath(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, on loop for suspension, with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, unmarked, measuring 43. 63 mm (w) x 48. 25 mm (h),