Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wächtler & Lange Buy Now 56 mm x 77 mm

56 mm x 77 mm

Cottle proceeded overseas for service in the French theatre on January 8

He signed his Attestation Paper with the South African Expeditionary Forces (3207) on December 6

ROCHE” and dated “1946”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wächtler & Lange Buy Now 56 mm x 77 mm(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, the suspension loop