Germany, Imperial. A Mounted 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold 1st Depot Battalion

1st Depot Battalion

two bronze gilt insignia

a pair of Heer Panzer BeVo-style EM/NCO collar tabs

the obverse with a silver gilt oval blue enameled medallion bearing a Gold rampant lion

Germany, Imperial. A Mounted 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold 1st Depot Battalion(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse Einzelspange). 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 mounted to a trapezoidal bronze bar with a horizontal pinback, 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, the