Germany, Wehrmacht. 1939 Iron Cross I Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the Battalion was broken up

the Battalion was broken up and absorbed into the 9th

Footnote: Eugen Stäbler was born on 31 October 1903 in Westgartshausen

consisting of a an eagle clutching a sword horizontally in its talons with a red enameled five-pointed star in-between its wings and a open-ended laurel wreath at the base

On October 2

Naming is impressed on the MC and suspended from a silver bow-tied ribbon with pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. 1939 Iron Cross I Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the Battalion was broken upA 1939 Iron Cross I Class, 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 Prsidialianzlei code 15 for Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 44. 44 mm (w) x 44. 33 mm (h),