Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Second Pattern, by C.E. Juncker Hold with his mother receiving the

with his mother receiving the Memorial Cross

Middle Eastern Campaign Medal in bronze

1897 in South Moulton

two days shy of his twenty-second birthday

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Second Pattern, by C.E. Juncker Hold with his mother receiving the(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of nickel silver, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked C. E. JUNCKER, BERLIN, measuring 48. 18 mm (w)