An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class By Hammer & Söhne Hold died December 31

died December 31

the reverse engraved

4" (In Memory of my Service with Reconnaissance Detachment 4)

Footnote: The development of poisonous gasses used as offensive weapons in the First World War necessitated the development of defensive gas masks and accessories

independent K-Verband units

An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class By Hammer & Söhne Hold died December 31An Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; white metal cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a white metal ribbed border; on loop for suspension (marked 55); with its period original ribbon, with a period attached horizontal pinback; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised