Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, With Case, By Imme & Sohn Newly Listed including a EM/NCO’s breast eagle

including a EM/NCO’s breast eagle

and Royal Canadian Dragoons (yellow embroidered lettering on blue felt

accompanied by two Ribbon Bars with pinbacks)

the announcement appearing in the Supplement to the London Gazette 35059 of Tuesday

He first joined the army on 16 September 1914

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, With Case, By Imme & Sohn Newly Listed including a EM/NCO’s breast eagle(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen mit Etui). Constructed of gilded brass and nickel silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a diving Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked JMME & SOHN, BERLIN, measuring 41. 80 mm (w)