Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wächtler & Lange United Republic of 51 mm (w) x 60

51 mm (w) x 60

It was at Vimy Ridge that he would earn his Military Medal

having received his promotion on April 20

Footnote: The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands was a Dutch fascist and later Nazi political party that called itself a "movement"

Turner survived the war

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wächtler & Lange United Republic of 51 mm (w) x 60(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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, the suspension loop maker