Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann United Republic of 7 mm (w) x 91

7 mm (w) x 91 mm (h) inclusive of its open-ended wreath suspension

on original neck ribbon

It describes the monotony of interminable carrier-screening missions and the excitement of hazardous blockade or island-defence patrols carried out in blinding snow squalls and biting winds anong the rocky shoals and mud banks of the Korean west coast

he was transferred in December 1916 to an internment camp at Murren

Footnote: The design of this badge is illustrated on page 146 of "Canadian Militia Badges Pre 1914" by Daniel Mazeas (MM

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann United Republic of 7 mm (w) x 91(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). A textbook example of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class by Fritz Zimmermann of Stuttgart. Consisting of a Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse is plain, with a barrel hinge, a slender banjo style vertical pinback, and a