Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Archive Weller was appointed as a

Weller was appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant on probation with the Imperial Army (Royal Flying Corps

winning the Iron Cross II Class on 28 May 1942

Thornton / 5 E

"Air Crew Badges and and Honor Prizes of Flying Troops"

support added behind the lower left ball finial

Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Archive Weller was appointed as aPlume in a bright white horsehair wrapped around a stiff white core that is wrapped in white feathers, the horsehair very smooth and fine to the touch, with a white synthetic ring affixed by a thin twisted wire support that emerges from underneath a three level feathered skirt at the base, the feathers in red, white and blue, the feathered skirt butting a large knot composed of twenty four rows of rolled gold coloured bullion wire wrapped around a