Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example, with Case Hold A Medal for the Defence

A Medal for the Defence of Leningrad

narrow wreath variant

1917 by shrapnel causing a flesh wound to the calf of his right leg: "On Sept

Seidel was a Rottwachtmeister (Corporal) with the Schutzpolizei in Munich

with dark blue piping around the edges of the straps (indicating medical branch)

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example, with Case Hold A Medal for the Defence(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a wide barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a