on loop for suspension - marked “13” for “Gustav Brehmer
on a six-pointed star base
vertical pinback (replaced/repaired)
Burnet was admonished for an unspecified loss of equipment & had his pay docked
The upper right breast bears an insignia in the form of a dark grey trapezoid patch with a field-grey cotton threaded backer overlaid by a silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Late-War Type B by Steinhauer and Lück, with Dietrich Maerz Certification United Republic of on loop for suspension -(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). 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 six oclock arm bearing a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop, also stamped on the reverse with a Prsidialkanzlei code of