Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Hold and a Hungarian War Service

and a Hungarian War Service Medal

V: The Road to Arras

This could corroborate with his medical records which indicate failing health

1917 "for eye refraction"

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Hold and a Hungarian War Service(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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 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 but with the physical characteristics of manufacture