two Leave Or Duty Ration Books (the first numbered "062497" and issued by the Ordnance Stores
bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire interspersed with carmine threading
mostly because of the vast technological differences compared to WWI
featuring clusters of five rays in each quadrant
18 Casualty Clearing Station with "suspected Appendicitis" the same day
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Großmann & Co. Auction Archive two Leave Or Duty Ration(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