Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class With Document To Leutnant Adam Gotz Buy Now Province of Manitoba Official Registration

Province of Manitoba Official Registration of Death

before being posted to the 5th Brigade

cornucopia hallmarked with six campaigns listed on the reverse

Footnote: Private Edouard Labadie is shown on the roll of the 9th Battalion

Downing returned to Canada in 1946

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class With Document To Leutnant Adam Gotz Buy Now Province of Manitoba Official RegistrationA 1914 Iron Cross I Class, (Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened 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 is plain and bears a vertical pinback and round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 55 mm (w) x 42.