Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed and unashamedly celebrates the military

and unashamedly celebrates the military virtues of physical fitness and preparedness for war

regular and reserve

and again taken on strength with the 6th Reserve Battalion at Seaford on November 19

Its members were known as "străjeri" (sentinels)

Gillies was later awarded a Good Conduct Badge on October 27

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed and unashamedly celebrates the military(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 hingeand tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code