Germany, Empire. A Pair of First World War Service Decorations ( Iron Cross 1914 / Military Merit Cross) visually-hidden Constructed of tan-coloured cotton bearing

Constructed of tan-coloured cotton bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

when an enemy shell landed nearby and he was hit in the chest by a piece of shrapnel which instantly killed him

1 Convalescent Depot at Boulogne for a ten day stay

with "RSR" (Romania Socialist Republic

Footnote: Bradley Elton Hunter was born on February 1

Germany, Empire. A Pair of First World War Service Decorations ( Iron Cross 1914 / Military Merit Cross) visually-hidden Constructed of tan-coloured cotton bearingA pair of First World War service decorations, consisting of: 1. Iron Cross 1914 II. Class. (Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse). Re instituted August 5th, 1914. Constructed of iron and silver, on a swivel loop for suspension from its Third Reich period replacement ribbon, 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,