Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By Wächtler & Lange Archive and Memorial Cross (engraved "L

and Memorial Cross (engraved "L

maker marked "STOKES" on the reverse

The bomb there went off while he was on the way to deal with it

85th Battery Canadian Field Artillery

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By Wächtler & Lange Archive and Memorial Cross (engraved "L(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Instituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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 1831, the suspension loop maker