Germany, Wehrmacht. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross 1939, Exhibition Example, c. 1960 United Republic of Canadian Machine Gun Brigade

Canadian Machine Gun Brigade

with the inscription "FIGHTIN' BITIN' " prominent and measuring 122 mm in diameter

set beneath a suspension loop

He sailed for Canada aboard HMT Minnekahda on May 14

1894 in Chalk River

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross 1939, Exhibition Example, c. 1960 United Republic of Canadian Machine Gun Brigade(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939, Museumsstck). 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop retaining a suspension ring with a period original length of