Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Fritz Zimmermann Newly Listed dated 7 April 1943

dated 7 April 1943

Footnote: A similar buckle is illustrated on page 433 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

Footnote: Thomas William Sammons was born in the parish of St Marys

1900-1901 Issue

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Fritz Zimmermann Newly Listed dated 7 April 1943(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 o'clock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop