Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Klein & Quenzer Archive faded museum mark in black

faded museum mark in black ink on the edge

Footnote: Camp Ellis was a United States World War II Army Service Forces Unit Training Cente and prisoner-of-war camp between the towns of Bernadotte

marked "In memoriam"

all within an ornate border

The 3rd (The King’s Own) Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army first raised in 1685

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Klein & Quenzer Archive faded museum mark in black(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