Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by J.E. Hammer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic National Order of Merit with

National Order of Merit with Rosette

the couple later settling in Canada at Glenburnie

Thierack’s signature is strong and in black ink

Gold-filled casing

Footnote: Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos was a sixteenth-century Orthodox Christian Archbishop of Aegina

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by J.E. Hammer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic National Order of Merit with(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