An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Paul Meybauer In Its Matching Case Of Issue Auction he was commissioned as a

he was commissioned as a Lieutenant (136763) with the Somerset Light Infantry on June 27

" He was killed I action on 22

He signed his Attestation Paper with the 79th Battery CEF in Montreal on May 17

and double oak leaf bars

An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Paul Meybauer In Its Matching Case Of Issue Auction he was commissioned as aAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed frame; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse plain, with a vertical banjo style pinback, with a barrel hinge, and a round wire catch the pin marked 7 (incomplete strike) for Paul Meybauer, Berlin on the reverse; measuring 44. 15