Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case Auction probably "in field"

probably "in field"

measures 14 mm (w) x 24 mm (h)

that he was discharged from service with the 154th Battalion due to a disablility

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both are date stamped in black ink

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case Auction probably "in field"(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 18 mm (w) x 44. 37 mm