Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Julius Maurer Auction Archive the pinback has been replaced

the pinback has been replaced

the Cross was awarded annually to workers completing fifty years' service with the same employer

The 22nd was the only active French-speaking infantry battalion on the warfront to serve in the Canadian Corps

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A First War Pair to the Canadian Labour Battalion - British War Medal (645175 L

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Julius Maurer Auction Archive the pinback has been replaced(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 reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop