Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück With Case Archive signing his Supplementary Declaration of

signing his Supplementary Declaration of Service in the Pacific Theatre Form on June 23

ELLIS 20 BN

and served on the Eastern Front in Southern Russia in the 1st Company of Sapper Battalion 155 between 1940-1942

and flat aluminum bullion wire interlaced with light green cotton threading to form the veins of the eagle

the obverse inscribed “Grati Princeps Et Patria Carolvs Imp

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück With Case Archive signing his Supplementary Declaration of(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, pinback maker marked with code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck,