Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Hold Where pilots were shot down

Where pilots were shot down in action

signing his Particulars of Recruit Drafted Under Military Service Act 1917 Paper (2128947)

it would come “under command of various Infantry Brigades in turn

and in 1921

the six o’clock arm bearing a maker’s mark of “JG & S” for J

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Hold Where pilots were shot down(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 194, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire