all edged by red/burgundy threads (representing Gau)
it is lined in white cotton
he served in the Mediterranean and was awarded the Naval General Service Medal with Palestine Clasp 1945-1948
much of which was destroyed by fire in 1888
a sunrise behind them and the date "1918" below
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare And Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Oversized Variant Buy Now all edged by red/burgundy threads(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse, bergre). 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 restitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked,