Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Auction Archive with a locking slide nut

with a locking slide nut closure

two letters written on Officers' Mess

1 Transit Camp

The intensity of the shell explosion also resulted in ‘obstructive deafness left ear due to destroyed membrane’ and nasal structure injury

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Auction Archive with a locking slide nut(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension, with a correct replacement ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower arm; measuring 44. 29 mm (w) x 44. 33 mm (h);