Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction He is commemorated on page

He is commemorated on page 95 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance and on the City of Hamilton Dieppe Memorial on the Waterfront Trail

the exterior bearing a machine-embroidered black inscription of “HEERES-VERWALTUNG” (“ARMY ADMINISTRATION”) in Fraktur script

An embossed pressed leather badge with border edging consisting of a strip of dark brown leather interwoven through holes in the badge

the upper chain composed of four links

maker marked “DR

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction He is commemorated on page(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original parade mounted ribbon with horizontal pinback and a red wool reverse liner, the decoration 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