I Class 1919-1957 (in bronze gilt with red
in orange BeVo machine embroidery on black rayon backer
issued for the school years of 1942/1943 and certified on 25 May 1943
General der Panzertruppen Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891–1963)
a page from the London Gazette and a Retirement Announcement from The Times
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version United Republic of I Class 1919-1957 (in bronze(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). An extremely well preserved cloth version of the 1939 Iron Cross I Class, consisting of a Cross Patte with a black wool base, the obverse with a hand embroidered silver aluminum wire frame, with a central hand embroidered black mobile swastika, the reverse with the remnants of an adhesive, unmarked, measuring 52 mm (w) x 52 mm (h), weighing 3. 5 grams,