Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, Type Ii, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed A Great War D

A Great War D

Africa Service Medal 1939-1945 (C169659 J

the obverse with a monogram of Wilhelm Ernst circumscribed by an inscription of “TREUE DIENSTE BEI DER FAHNE”

at the age of 79 and is buried next to his wife

produced during Third Reich period

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, Type Ii, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed A Great War D(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz 1. Klasse 1914). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn set above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of a version