An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class By Steinhauer & Lück Of Lüdenscheid Auction 47 mm x 94 mm)

47 mm x 94 mm)

bayonet fighting

with reeds in the background and a ribbon banner inscribed "DEUS NOBIS HAEC OTIA FECIT" (God Hath Granted Us This Ease) below

he was transferred to Torpedo School at the Shore Base H

1918 and that he was somehow declared "Fit for Duty"

An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class By Steinhauer & Lück Of Lüdenscheid Auction 47 mm x 94 mm)Germany, T. Reich. German Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension; with its period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower arm; marked "4" on the ring,