Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic but typical cross by maker

but typical cross by maker Meybauer

7 mm (h) hanger date in bronze with a copper-coloured gilt and blue enamels

Thomas Ontario prior to enlisting in the CEF in December 1914

however he signed it Ernst Heinlein

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic but typical cross by maker(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei