Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with minor lost of gilt

with minor lost of gilt and stained silver

He fought in the Boer War as a Private with the Lancashire Fusiliers

above a pillbox

(Essentablett in Silber)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with minor lost of gilt(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 12 for C. E. Juncker,