Three German Imperial Iron Cross Badges Hold with sliding tightening bar

with sliding tightening bar

a period that witnessed a good deal of work alongside monitors and drifters in bombardments off Dunkirk and Zeebrugge

The fighting in Norway (1940) and in the Aleutian Islands (1943) demonstrated to Canadian Army planners that combat in such environmental conditions might be required in the future

with original factory lacquer still over 90% present

HE LIVES - IN A WAY THAT HUMBLES THE UNDERTAKINGS OF MOST MEN"

Three German Imperial Iron Cross Badges Hold with sliding tightening barWilhelm II Franz Joseph I First World War Commemorative Cross 1914 (silvered bronze, 26. 5 mm, integral loop); German and Austria Hungary Relief Society of Chicago Commemorative Cross 1915 (silvered metal, marked "AUSGEGEBEN VON DER DEUTSCHEN UND OESTERREICH UNGARISCHEN HILFSGESELLSCHAFT CHICAGO U. S. A." on the reverse, 28. 8 mm, horizontal pinback); and Gold for Iron 100th Anniversary Medal 1813 1913 (silver with black enamels, 24. 7 mm, integral