Although credited with effectively organizing Germany’s flying troops
with double-edged triangular steel blade
Commemorative Cross 1848-1908 (bronze gilt
Army Artillery Captain Shoulder Boards - Red backing with four folded grey chords creating eight rows
consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms joined together through the quadrants by NSDAP-style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs
Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Hold Although credited with effectively organizing(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a central threaded post retaining an original silver cruciform backplate and