Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic An Imperial German Army marching

An Imperial German Army marching drum

and was to spend the next three years in various hospitals recovering from his injuries

England and was living there when he received a letter from a Comptroller in Canada

above the inscription FOR SERVICE

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic An Imperial German Army marching(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an early