Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class With Ribbon Bar Hold smashed the Italian

smashed the Italian

Footnote: Somers Gillies was born on January 25th

maker mark RZM M1/120 for Wilhelm Deumer of Lüdenscheid

known today as the Pilgrims

Footnote: In 1942

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class With Ribbon Bar Hold smashed the Italian(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Bandschnalle). 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 reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813,