Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction The silver medal was awarded

The silver medal was awarded to all ranks of military personnel or to civilians

An embossed pressed leather badge with border edging consisting of a strip of dark brown leather interwoven through holes in the badge

He is commemorated on page 95 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance and on the City of Hamilton Dieppe Memorial on the Waterfront Trail

maker marked “DR

a partially-legible maker’s mark ending in “TREß

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction The silver medal was awarded(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 parade mounted ribbon with horizontal pinback and a red wool reverse liner, the decoration 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