Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class For Non-Combatants Hold and "31" the steel batch

and "31" the steel batch number) on the underside of the helmet at the back

: Prussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class (silver with black enamels

listing him under his 6th Battalion Rifles service number (6291)

he had been extremely lucky to survive a headshot

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class For Non-Combatants Hold and "31" the steel batch(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse fr Nichtkmpfer). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the reverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock arm with an initial