Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h.mayer United Republic of framed in a full wreath

framed in a full wreath of laurel leaves

oak leaves in the squared-off corners with a blank area below (122 mm x 177 mm)

Document folded

Macdonell and cited in the London Gazette 30389: "For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty

seventy-two institutes

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h.mayer United Republic of framed in a full wreath(1939 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, 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 plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting an elongated flat wire catch, marked 26 on pin denoting B. H.