" It left me with real sad memories thinking about my wife whom I married just two weeks before I left for overseas
A mixed lot of six badges and medals
and nine o’clock arms bearing a date of “12
the reverse with a central inscription of “FÜR RETTUNG AUS GEFAHR” (“FOR RESCUE FROM DANGER”)
stating that he had no previous military service and that his trade was that of Paper Ruler
Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Gebrüder Friedländer Newly Listed " It left me with(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker