Germany, Imperial. A Parade-Mounted 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J. Reimann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac ) Naming is privately engraved

) Naming is privately engraved in small block capitals

Lieutenant Gardner and another small band of B Company men fought desperately against hundreds of Chinese attacking from the south

with golden-yellow trim along all four sides of the tab

Berlin (with pierced crown specific to this maker only)

consisting of thirteen vertical and ten horizontal table cut stones

Germany, Imperial. A Parade-Mounted 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J. Reimann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac ) Naming is privately engraved(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse Einzelspange). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon mounted to a zink backer with a horizontal pinback and light brown wool reverse liner, 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