Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class, By Rudolf Wächtler & Lange Newly Listed the injury must have been

the injury must have been severe

It shows a young Panzer troop soldier

he appears to have joined the Canadian Armed Forces on July 8

original ribbon wrapped around a silver frame

a Photograph of Gilbert in Uniform (black and white

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class, By Rudolf Wächtler & Lange Newly Listed the injury must have been(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension marked 100 for Rudolf Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida; with a shortened piece of 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