Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Gottlieb & Wagner Newly Listed within a pebbled gilt ring

within a pebbled gilt ring

measuring 38 mm (w) x 46 mm (h)

It also describes in detail his two injuries: "On June 13th 1916 was blown by shell explosion up against the side of (a) dugout

arriving in Horlivka in the beginning of July 1942

the reverse marked “G10” for an unidentified maker

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Gottlieb & Wagner Newly Listed within a pebbled gilt ring(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). 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 reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked but