Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed bordered with blue stripes

bordered with blue stripes

regular and reserve

An Iron Cross First Class 1939 - A finely worn cross with a toned silver frame and an iron core

bearing machine-embroidered silver-grey threaded propellers flanked by stylized wings

Gillies was later awarded a Good Conduct Badge on October 27

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed bordered with blue stripes(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 block hingeand tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code