Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Honour Decoration, Ii Class With Case United Republic of A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch

A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch depicting the Nordmark regional coat of arms and Frisian-language motto “lewer dod as slov” (“better dead than a slave”)

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at Berlin on 6 February 1940

a 1918 ten centimes coin in nickel mounted in the centre of the front panel

while serving with HMCS Iroquois out of Halifax

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Honour Decoration, Ii Class With Case United Republic of A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of aluminum, 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 raised central mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR PROTECTION), the reverse bearing a raised central date of 1938,