Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Gustav Brehmer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic It is gift addressed in

It is gift addressed in black ink "To my husband Christmas 1941 / With Love Eileen" on the endpaper on the inside front cover

the regiment was amalgamated with the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot to form The East Lancashire Regiment

was discharged to duty on October 31st

he was taken prisoner by US forces and was released two years later

the obverse bears a large V with a lion

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Gustav Brehmer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic It is gift addressed in(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