Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive roses and shamrocks forming a

roses and shamrocks forming a wreath

to command the Nile Expedition for the relief of General Gordon and the besieged garrison at Khartoum

clockwise from the top left "45

His orders included

the obverse presenting the Military Long Service Cross with the words TREUE DIENSTE BEI DER FAHNE between the arms

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive roses and shamrocks forming a(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, unmarked, measuring