Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wächtler & Lange Newly Listed then posted six weeks later

then posted six weeks later to the Depot at Osea Island

Flying Officer Arthur Edmond Franklin would distinguish himself as a Professor at the University of Toronto in Infectious Diseases and participate in the development of the polio vaccine Medium 199 at Connaught Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Toronto in the 1950s

before being transferred to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Bearwood Park on February 12

light wear overall on the reverse

the Württemberg flag in black and yellow at the right

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wächtler & Lange Newly Listed then posted six weeks later(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 100