Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Paul Meybauer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Archive He was Mentioned in Despatches

He was Mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette six times: on June 22

Boer War Pair

Italian-Austrian War Medal (bronze

intact lateral prongs

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Paul Meybauer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Archive He was Mentioned in Despatches(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback marked with code 7 for maker Paul Meybauer,