Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Anton Schenkls Nachfolger Newly Listed including a Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (National

including a Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (National Socialist War Victim Care) membership badge

Both flanks of his battalion were exposed and they were almost surrounded by the enemy

He is also commemorated on page 296 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

the badge is suspended from a large green enamel oak and laurel wreath

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Anton Schenkls Nachfolger Newly Listed including a Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (National(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 ribbon, 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 restitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop