Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Newly Listed and bearing reverse straps

and bearing reverse straps

A Silver Grade Wound Badge: Cut Out Version - silvered tombac (silvering on obverse worn off)

31 mm (w) x 34

The front has a vertical row of six large brown finished zinc buttons on the right side

Their formation was broken by the attack of ten enemy pursuit planes

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Newly Listed and bearing reverse straps(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, 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