Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spain Cross, Gold Grade with Swords, by Petz & Lorenz Newly Listed both Second Class

both Second Class

overlaid by a silver monoplane

Footnote: Charles James Lyon was the son of Walter F

usually translated as "shame on anyone who thinks evil of it"

He enlisted on 9 January 1940 and was assigned to the Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon (mot

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spain Cross, Gold Grade with Swords, by Petz & Lorenz Newly Listed both Second Class(Spanienkreuz in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with swords piecing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a privately