WW1. British manufactured propaganda iron cross. Light tone to obverse

Light tone to obverse

spare ribbons and associated paperwork

as a 2nd Lieutenant of the Kings (Liverpool Regiment) who was wounded on 29/9/16

Surplus metal around the edge from striking

Mottled tone to reverse

WW1. British manufactured propaganda iron cross. Light tone to obverseObv. '1914 W HARTLEPOOLS SCARBORO WHITBY'. Rev RHEIMS LOUVAIN AMIENS 1914' around a cross and W These crosses were commercially produced propaganda pieces mimicking the configuration of the German Iron Cross but ironically adorned with the 'battle honours' of 'war atrocities' perpetrated by German forces during the First World War. Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby were bombarded by the German Navy on the 16 December 1914 with over 100 civilians