Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class certificate_of_authenticity (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuz Halsband

(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuz Halsband mit Ring)

the reverse of the cross lightly textured and inscribed “Für Verdienste um das Deutsche Rote Kreuz/For Service in the German Red Cross”

Campbell of Wilcox Avenue

with six "submariners" on board who were to join a British crew meant to fight in the campaign to stop the Nazis led by General Erwin Rommel in North Africa

A DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz/German Red Cross) Schwesternschaft membership badge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class certificate_of_authenticity (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuz Halsband(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 94 mm (w) x 43. 98 mm (h), weighing 17. 6 grams,