Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Schwerin Archive planning to fly mail from

planning to fly mail from the White Star ocean liner RMS Homeric in a de Havilland DH

Royal Flying Corps insignia with the inscription "PER ARDUA AD ASTRA" above the interlocking initials "IM"

Footnote: Roland MacKay Bleakley was born in 1916 in Kindersley

Agnes Calder of Rutherglen

the underside in an olive wool material

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Schwerin Archive planning to fly mail from(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered and patinated tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular chain link wreath, surrounding a central blockade runner cutting through waves, with its bow topped by a German national eagle in mid flight clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked OTTO PLACZEK, BERLIN and maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 48. 73