2nd Class Badge (two-piece construction
the interior content consisting of 208 paginated pages featuring black-and-white photographs and full-colour plates (the latter illustrated by Malcolm McGregor) of personnel and insignia of both the Wehrmacht and myriad of state and civil organizations of the Third Reich
The throat of the scabbard retains a functional spring catch to firmly hold the hewer in place during storage
Footnote: The 2nd Mounted Rifle Battalion was organized in Victoria
representing a higher rank
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class Auction 2nd Class Badge (two-piece construction(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 replacement