Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Newly Listed Footnote: William Blane's original name

Footnote: William Blane's original name was William Burriss Engelbrecht

zink buttons which emanate from the right panel and meet an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left panel

Ceylon Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

and two Royal Air Force (RAF) Pilot Badges (both in brown and white embroidery

(Kripo Dienstmarke)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Newly Listed Footnote: William Blane's original name(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanlzei code 26 for