Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot Observer's Badge In Gold & Diamonds Award Document Auction Archive as a Battalion runner he

as a Battalion runner he repeatedly carried messages to the Front Line through heavy enemy barrages

loss of finish evident

1919 in Vancouver

Footnote: The Hundius Flotilla was a front-line unit of the Third Reich Kriegsmarine

Footnote: The Volunteer Combatant's Cross was instituted in 1935

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot Observer's Badge In Gold & Diamonds Award Document Auction Archive as a Battalion runner heAn extremely rare document finely fabricated from a thick white parchment, inscribed "VERLEIHUNGSURKUNDE Fr hervorragende Verdienste um die deutsche Luftwaffe verleihe ich dem das FLUGZEUGFUHRER UND BEOBACHTER ABZEICHEN IN GOLD MIT BRILLANTEN hauptquartier, den DER REICHSMINISTER DER LUFTFAHRT UND OBERBEFEHISHABER DER LUFTWAFFE Reichsmarschall", embossed with the Luftwaffe Eagle above and the Eagle with Crossed Batons insignia of the Reichsmarschall