Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive together with IC 2nd Class

together with IC 2nd Class award document

during 1937-39

(81759 CPL W

where he was posted to the 6th Recruit Battalion and it was here that he qualified in bayonet

It was there that he received the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross after completing 368 sorties

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive together with IC 2nd Class(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked on the pinback with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 46 mm (w) x 48. 28 mm (h), weighing 15. 8 grams, in extremely fine condition.