Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed Hawkins found himself in the

Hawkins found himself in the field with the 19th on March 2

separately affixed crown in gilt with interior red enamel

each constructed of cardboard-reinforced light green wool and bearing fours bands of silver aluminum wire piping

the reverse with a magnetic metal spring clip

Gold Grade for Twenty Five Years' Service (bronze gilt

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed Hawkins found himself in the(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 barrel hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch,