Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By Gustav Brehmer United Republic of awarded to Feldwebel Gerhard Freyer

awarded to Feldwebel Gerhard Freyer on January 19th 1942

The fourth one was signed on October 27

at the age of 63 and is buried in Holy Family Catholic Cemetery

There is a tiny nip just below the right pocket and evidence of moth invasion in scattered places on the exterior

from which he never fully recovered

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By Gustav Brehmer United Republic of awarded to Feldwebel Gerhard Freyer(1939 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, unmarked,