Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ko Hold Socialist Republic medals:

Socialist Republic medals:

It is signed in blue ink by Senior Lieutenant and Junior Officer Kauz

Accompanied by copies of his Service Records (with some of the entries "blacked out")

and with a piece of paper stating “Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2

The Hera sheltered at Clallam Bay for a week as continual storms chewed up the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ko Hold Socialist Republic medals:(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with an elongated barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire