Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac He returned home to Toronto

He returned home to Toronto in the summer of 1919 and studied engineering at the School of Practical Science

Each are marked Assmann

marked with an anchor (made in Birmingham)

maker marked “ANTON REITERER

the opposite end stitched into a loop to accommodate the buckle

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac He returned home to Toronto(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, affixed to a parade mount with a horizontal pinback and red wool reverse liner, 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