Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed and a few weeks later

and a few weeks later he was invalided home suffering from shell-shock

In 1906 he was chosen to drive the very first armoured car

408131 Private Percy King served with the 42nd Infantry Battalion in France

He was also Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht (Armed Forces Report) on  November 29

number 1053962 and paid a War Service Gratuity in the amount of $381

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed and a few weeks later(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 93 mm (w) x 43. 74 mm (h), weighing 19. 6 grams,