An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class In Its Packet Of Issue United Republic of The blade is diamond shaped

The blade is diamond shaped and exhibits scratches common to extraction and return to the scabbard on both sides of the blade

ribbon banner style hanger inscribed "THREE-YEARS" flanked by "T" and "A" with pinback

He is listed on the British Census of 1881 as a young boy

(He was also entitled to 1939-45 Star and France and Germany Star)

and on October 10

An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class In Its Packet Of Issue United Republic of The blade is diamond shapedAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; silver cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened brass core (non magnetic) within a silver ribbed border; on loop for suspension marked 900 for silver content; with its period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower arm;