Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased German Cross In Gold By Otto Klein & Co., With Personal Effects, To Erich Jeckstat Archive It is signed in black

It is signed in black ink by the camp commander

The 9th Mississauga Horse contributed many volunteers to the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War

the obverse with a national eagle clutching a mobile swastika in the centre

He served mainly as a radio operator and was stationed in occupied France

with gilded bullion rank pip

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased German Cross In Gold By Otto Klein & Co., With Personal Effects, To Erich Jeckstat Archive It is signed in blackDeutsches Kreuz in Gold). Instituted 28 September 1941. (1941 1945 issue). Constructed of cupal with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a double overlaid starburst pattern with eight points, the centre with a black enameled mobile swastika on a circular silvered disk, surrounded by a gilded stamped wreath of laurel leaves and ribbons, joined together at the bottom by an institution date of 1941, the wreathed ringed on both the inner and outer edges