Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ko Newly Listed with six smaller emanating rays

with six smaller emanating rays between each of the star points

Cross in bronze and enamels

The document is dated to October 23

Hopcraft was appointed Acting Corporal with pay on January 22

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ko Newly Listed with six smaller emanating rays(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with an elongated barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire