Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Hold 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy

1st Viscount Byng of Vimy GCB GCMG MVO DCO (September 11

A white cotton label on the right of the interior bears a partially-legible inscription indicating that the cap was distributed by the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot

a basket of bread and a fish above

Stapf participated in all the actions including the "Grosskampftag" on the 16th of August

They had to undertake a 130 km march back to their own lines

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Hold 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop