Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Hold Private Hawkins forfeited three days'

Private Hawkins forfeited three days' pay for being Absent Without Leave

the son of Charlotte McNaughton and the late David McNaughton

– Unsere Parole: Tapfer und Treu

reprinted from The New York Genealogical and Biographic Record

by maker Adolf Scholze

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Hold Private Hawkins forfeited three days'(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed or 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26