Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, Single Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Purple Heart

Purple Heart

" Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Donald Randall Burke

Screwback - magnetic core

He was then posted to the 52nd Battery

A Spanish-American War Group to W

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, Single Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Purple Heart(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse, Einzelspange). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon mounted on a single 40 mm long bar with a horizontal pinback and white rayon liner, 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