Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early And Scarce 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case And Bearer Photograph Auction Archive with an interior pocket over

with an interior pocket over the left breast

arriving in Melbourne on September 15

Schnek was given command of the 9th Infantry Division and served further in Italy

Two Third Reich Medals - German Social Welfare Medal (silvered bronze

large rosette on a frayed original ribbon

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early And Scarce 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case And Bearer Photograph Auction Archive with an interior pocket over(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui und Bild). 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 raised crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, an early type,