Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive silver gilt hammer and sickle

silver gilt hammer and sickle insignia on a silver star base with red and white enamels

Footnote: William Douglas Renton was born in Britain in 1922

silvering wear evident on the Long Service Cross and Medal

and a British attack on Syria

FRS (May 1

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive silver gilt hammer and sickle(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, unmarked,