Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Early Spanish-Made Variant for Blue Division Volunteers consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac standard buckram underlay

standard buckram underlay

Gibson was transferred to the 4th Infantry Battalion for overseas service on October 10

Gallant had served a total of fifty months in Canada and the United Kingdom

but he returned to fight in the following Battle of Pagsanjan

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Early Spanish-Made Variant for Blue Division Volunteers consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac standard buckram underlay(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of blackened and silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with classic Spanish style buckle and pinback, consisting of a one piece Cross Patte with a blackened core within a ribbed and silvered frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm