Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class GTRexclude with two rivets

with two rivets

immigrated to Canada when he was thirteen years old in 1904

Signature on Post War Photo: Jacques Leroy

both inside panels marked with a Russian maker mark in Cyrillic script with accompanying insignia and assay mark in relief

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class GTRexclude with two rivets(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring