Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed Blockade Breaker to Ireland 8-22

Blockade Breaker to Ireland 8-22 April 1916"

constructed of grey and field grey BeVo style machine embroidery

a German stronghold

the loose end of the tab broken off at the first row of adjustment holes

surrounded by an oak leaf wreath

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed Blockade Breaker to Ireland 8-22(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse bearing a central initial W, the six ocock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,