Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Republic of Constructed of a card stock

Constructed of a card stock binding with a grey canvas exterior liner

Constructed of a white cotton blend with red machine-embroidered Geneva Cross and black text reading “Deutsches Rotes Kreuz” (“German Red Cross”)

including a Heer EM/NCO’s visor cap cockade and wreath

the Battalion was mobilized and travelled to Darwin

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Republic of Constructed of a card stock(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with 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