Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic engraved with the recipient’s name

engraved with the recipient’s name - “Xaver Schneider Gattnau” on the reverse and dated “Leipzig 1909” on the obverse

the Somme offensive later that year

Ellmer was promoted to SS-Sturmmann on September 1

(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter III

he was officially diagnosed with "Neurasthenia" (mechanical weakness of the actual nerves) and was taken on strength from overseas

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic engraved with the recipient’s name(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Klein & Quenzer, Idar Oberstein, using