Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Case, Ko-Marked GTRexclude the 23rd Battalion was re-designated

the 23rd Battalion was re-designated the 23rd Reserve Battalion

JAMES FUIDGE CROWDY

1751 with the mandate "Make me capable officers and righteous men out of it" to the first commandant Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun and is thus the oldest active military academy in the World

1943 he became Commander-in-Chief of all Kriegsmarine units in the Baltic Sea

A group of four Third Reich period uniform insignia

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Case, Ko-Marked GTRexclude the 23rd Battalion was re-designated(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension, 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 twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock