Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Hold 79 mm (w) x 65

79 mm (w) x 65

The patch measures 54 mm (w) x 44 mm (h)

Evelyn Smith Osborn of Fort Erie

Footnote: This medal was issued to volunteers from Catalan who served in the French Army during First World War

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Hold 79 mm (w) x 65(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with a partially legible LDO code of L