Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction measuring 210 mm (l) x

measuring 210 mm (l) x 100 mm (h)

Military personnel stationed in Germany

almost one year to the day of his first wounding at Passchendaele

Footnote: Ralph Welcome Baker was born on April 28

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction measuring 210 mm (l) x(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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 78 mm (w) x 42. 72 mm (h), weighing