Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic decorated with three horizontal bars

decorated with three horizontal bars along with a multi-coloured enamel insignia for the NSDAP attached to a horizontal bar

standard buckram core

Accompanied by his Memorial Plaque (GEORGE BARCLAY)

the enemy opened a very intense bombardment with heavy artillery and trench mortars on the trenches on Observatory Ridge

both unmarked and measuring 40 mm (w) x 58 mm (l)

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic decorated with three horizontal bars(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,