Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Hold – Unsere Parole: Tapfer und

– Unsere Parole: Tapfer und Treu

Private Hawkins forfeited three days' pay for being Absent Without Leave

11 mm (w) x 35

McEwen enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force (R/191601)

the son of Charlotte McNaughton and the late David McNaughton

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Hold – Unsere Parole: Tapfer und(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed or 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26