Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Archive George I "erected the Knights

George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order"

A Highland Light Infantry D-Day Participant Memorial Cross 1944 -  Group of Six to Private John Charles Downing

thirty-two with vertical pinbacks

He was promoted to Second Lieutenant with the 127th United States Infantry on September 9

was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Archive George I "erected the Knights(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback with a double makers mark of 20 and L