Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version Newly Listed measuring 145 mm (w) x

measuring 145 mm (w) x 218 mm (h)

At the beginning of the First War Hansen was in the rank of Oberleutnant (Senior Lieutenant)

numbered "110098" on the buttonhole attachment

WWI 120th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF - Browning copper

eighteen days shy of his twenty-third birthday

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version Newly Listed measuring 145 mm (w) x(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a central threaded lug retaining an original