Germany, Luftwaffe. A Mint Pilot’s Badge, With Case, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Hold 115 mm x 242 mm

115 mm x 242 mm x 62 mm

A late 1930's made silver Latin cross pattée with black enamel panels with narrow white borders

below is inscribed with “13 THÜRING BEZIRKSSCHIESSEN COBURG”

A First War period Wound Badge

as evidenced by mentioned in his medical records of taking ill with Enteric Fever (Typhoid Fever) in India in 1893

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Mint Pilot’s Badge, With Case, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Hold 115 mm x 242 mm(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen mit Etui). Constructed of nickel silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a raised and narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Gebrder Wegerhoff, Ldenscheid,