Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Hold the cypher FY sits in

the cypher FY sits in a crowned blue enamelled disc at 12 o’clock

the soldier placing his hand on a small chalice bearing the cypher of King Vittorio Emmanuel III

set on a 110 mm-long bronze bar with a horizontal pinback and red wool reverse liner

stating that he had thirty-five months previous service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

1916 from Halifax

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Hold the cypher FY sits in(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 institution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the