Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, Bar-Mounted And 800 Silver-Marked consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Lieutenant Harper

Lieutenant Harper

arriving in England on November 20th

nowadays it lost the rank of an order of merit and the classes were reduced to two and the number of categories extended to four

The suspension on the medal has been severed

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, Bar-Mounted And 800 Silver-Marked consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Lieutenant Harper(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon suspended from a 50 mm wide zink bar with a horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic 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