Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold and a Military Merit Cross

and a Military Merit Cross with Swords and small insignia with war decoration

8 mm (w) x 59 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and ball suspension

Although evacuated to a military hospital at Rijeka he died of his wounds the following day

and number patches “106” sewn onto the pennant with white threading

the latter part of which states:

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold and a Military Merit Cross(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 ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring