Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann Republic of retaining a black-and-white studio portrait

retaining a black-and-white studio portrait of Liedtke fixed in place with original magnetic metal rivets and certified with regulation double stamps

As a young man

Upper Canada (now Ontario)

for actions in the North West Europe theatre in 1944-45

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann Republic of retaining a black-and-white studio portrait(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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the reverse of the pinback maker