Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed Type II with Rama VI

Type II with Rama VI (1911) and Type III with Rama VII (1927)

Due to his ongoing medical condition

promoted to Captain on October 14

reverse inscribed in handwritten blue ink "PTE

the 99th Manitoba Rangers

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed Type II with Rama VI(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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, unmarked, measuring 44. 22 mm (w) x 44. 29 mm (h), weighing 15.