An Unusual Cased Iron Cross 1914 First Class; Silver Counter Plated Version Auction Reserve Long Service Medal

Reserve Long Service Medal

This is a well preserved textbook example of an “Afrika Kampagne/Africa Campaign” cufftitle

20th Infantry Battalion "1st Central Ontario Battalion"

About a week after we got there

and France: Croix de Guerre (bronze

An Unusual Cased Iron Cross 1914 First Class; Silver Counter Plated Version Auction Reserve Long Service MedalAn unusual Iron Cross 1914 First Class Eisernes Kreuz 1914 1. Klasse; silver cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a white metal ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm; the reverse marked 800, as well as M. v. R., and with two threaded studs, one on the reverse of the upper arm, and