Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Hold with a smooth-finished dark brown

with a smooth-finished dark brown upper and brown underside

the 99th Mounted Rifles

horizontal fold mark across centre

maker marked on reverse “Carl Poellath

he took part in an NCO training course with Infantry Regiment 31

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Hold with a smooth-finished dark brown(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. 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 raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 52 for C. F.