Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Hold and twisted silver aluminum bullion

and twisted silver aluminum bullion wire

He was struck off strength of the 21st Battalion and posted to the Eastern Ontario Regimental Depot at Seaford for duty with the Canadian Forestry Corps

green and blue embroidery in the base of the main crown

the obverse circumscribed “Zur See Unbesiegt Im Felde” (Undefeated in the See) with an anchor in the centre

a Third Reich

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Hold and twisted silver aluminum bullion(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a convex 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 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 42. 92