Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Buy Now inscribed "GAUVERGLEICHS-KAMPF 1939 DER LEICHTATHLETEN"

inscribed "GAUVERGLEICHS-KAMPF 1939 DER LEICHTATHLETEN" below and framed by the inscription "BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG-SÜDWEST"

and a British flag and drum on his left arm

A wooden cross was left behind on the side of an Italian road in his memory

1912 by Decree 1879 of the Sovereign Council of the Order

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Buy Now inscribed "GAUVERGLEICHS-KAMPF 1939 DER LEICHTATHLETEN"(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, unmarked, measuring