An Iron Cross First Class 1914; Screwback certificate_of_authenticity (engraved sloping script inverted naming:

(engraved sloping script inverted naming: Edward Branagan H

stating that had he no previous military service

on which Gibbons was serving aboard the Vandalia as a junior officer

An American Senior Balloon Observer Badge

He healed from the wound and was taken on strength at the Canadian Casualty Assembly Centre

An Iron Cross First Class 1914; Screwback certificate_of_authenticity (engraved sloping script inverted naming:An Iron Cross First Class 1914; Screwback Silver frame, iron core, magnetic, marked "900" (silver) on the reverse of the cross and on the screwback, 42. 5 mm, marked "D. R. G. M." (Deutsches Reichsgebrauchsmuster) and numbered "653146" on the screwback, peeling in the black on the arms, contact marks, fine.