Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and a 40 Year Faithful

and a 40 Year Faithful Service ribbon

with facsimile signature of Reichsjugendführer Artur Axmann

obverse illustrating the Town of Pembroke coat-of-arms

the reverse centre bears “XXV” (25 - for 25 years of service)

Saarlautern” printed in the same style on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and a 40 Year Faithful(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 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 mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring