Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, on Single Parade Mount Archive (North Yemen

(North Yemen

the obverse centre bears the image of Saint Christopher with a staff and a child on his shoulder

Footnote: The Defence Forces Reserve Service Medal was instituted in June 1961 and awarded to members of An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil or An Slua Muirí for seven years' service with the Defence Forces Reserves

it is impossible to imagine what might have happened to the wounded

small chip in the white enamels on the tip of the reverse right arm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, on Single Parade Mount Archive (North Yemen(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse an Einzelschnalle). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a single parade mount with a horizontal pinback, 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