An Iron Cross 1939 First Class Hold Evacuated to 4th Southern General

Evacuated to 4th Southern General Hospital

who had taken active part in the campaign

located east of Ypres

Otto Schrader would later become a Blockade Runner and granted his badge on 21st December 1942

on a gilded bronze chain with knurled pins on either ends

An Iron Cross 1939 First Class Hold Evacuated to 4th Southern GeneralAn Iron Cross 1939 First Class Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse; white metal cross pattee of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a white metal ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse plain, with a vertical slender banjo style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a round wire catch; unmarked; measuring 44. 08 mm x 44. 12 mm;