Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wächtler & Lange Auction Archive and Fifth Class Order

and Fifth Class Order

and a Spanish Cross in Silver with Swords

joined together at the bottom by crossed swords

He fought in the Second Schleswig War against Denmark in 1864

He had previously had been awarded the Canadian Forces' Decoration while he was a Captain

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wächtler & Lange Auction Archive and Fifth Class Order(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 six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a bloc hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with