Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Paul Meybauer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Archive with two rings attached

with two rings attached

after which she was transferred to the Convalescent Home at Ardelot on March 6th for a one week stay

The Honour Roll Clasp award document is named to Oberfeldwebel (Master Sergeant) Struve

with an illegible maker’s mark visible on the pinback

he was in battle on April 11

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Paul Meybauer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Archive with two rings attached(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback marked with code 7 for maker Paul Meybauer,