Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude with baby-blue trim along all

with baby-blue trim along all four sides of the tab

Footnote: This Order is the highest national decoration conferred to recognize civil merit

the hilt is in hollow silvered bronze with a steel blade

engraver marked "BARRE" on the obverse

Robert James McKay was born on August 29

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude with baby-blue trim along all(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop