Germany, Luftwaffe. A Combined Pilot And Observer Badge, Cloth Version Auction Archive the KIA soldier

the KIA soldier

the supports affixed to the blade via three pins that pass through from the obverse to the reverse

was acting as Assistant Deputy Postmaster-General at Ottawa at the time of enlisting in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in September 1914

She is buried at Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia

Contained within its original red paper carton/box of issuee

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Combined Pilot And Observer Badge, Cloth Version Auction Archive the KIA soldier(Flugzeugfhrer und Beobachterabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of a dark grey wool backer, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered golden yellow oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a swooping machine embroidered silver grey Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, unmarked, measuring 78 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.