Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot Badge To Friedrich Widenbach, With Case, By C.e. Juncker Auction 1919 in the London Gazette

1919 in the London Gazette 31132 and in the Canadian Gazette on April 12

by Lieutenant-Colonel Thibault at Christmas 2004

mounted to a five-sided cardboard suspension with paper clip

The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry

horizontally: "11023 9 F

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot Badge To Friedrich Widenbach, With Case, By C.e. Juncker Auction 1919 in the London Gazette(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Instituted 1935. (Issued 1936 1945). Constructed of silvered tombac, this badge is composed of a richly detailed, narrow version oak leaf wreath bearing a stylized J 1 type Luftwaffe eagle clutching a hand filed mobile swastika, the reverse presents with a barrel hinge accommodating a vertical pinback with a flattened tip meeting an elongated round wire catch, two rivets at the top half of the reverse of the wreath securely