Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case GTRexclude Official Canadian Army Overseas Casulty

Official Canadian Army Overseas Casulty Notification

Olympic rings in gold-coloured ink on the lid

Cain was to be admitted to hospital a third time

Twenty-five aces had served in the squadron

O'DONAHOE GREN

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case GTRexclude Official Canadian Army Overseas Casulty(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 89 mm (w) x 43. 80 mm