Prussia, State. A Grand Cross Of The Iron Cross 1870; Museum Exhibition Piece Hold to every ranking officer in

to every ranking officer in North Africa

1915 and proceeded to France with the 5th Infantry Battalion "Western Canadian Cavalry"

Bronze Cross (12 Bars)

all decorations are in very fine to extremely fine condition

the son of Cecil Barrow Simonds and Eleanor Marion Stuart "Nellie" Easton Simonds

Prussia, State. A Grand Cross Of The Iron Cross 1870; Museum Exhibition Piece Hold to every ranking officer in(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed silver frame; on a double looped ring for suspension from its shortened period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1870 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm; the reverse with a central oak leaf branch consisting of three oak leaves, with the