Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, Ii Class Archive At the time of enlistment

At the time of enlistment

and in 1872

dual loops for attachment

He immigrated to Canada in 1910 and four years later

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, Ii Class Archive At the time of enlistment(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered feinzink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a raised date of 1938, unmarked,