Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, Type Ii, By Otto Schickle Hold he was killed in action

he was killed in action at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on 9 April 1917

featuring a handwritten inscription from Zygmunt Pietrovski

He signed on as a recruit on January 26

the exterior bearing a machine-embroidered red threaded Geneva Cross circumscribed by a black inscription of “DEUTSCHES ROTES KREUZ” (“GERMAN RED CROSS”)

the neck ribbon exhibiting one spot along with multiple pinholes from previous board mounting

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, Type Ii, By Otto Schickle Hold he was killed in action(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse 1914). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating