closing with a grey bakelite button meeting a hidden
obverse centrepiece with the left-facing bust of Carol II
Gibbons was to see action in the Philippines in 1888-1889 and in China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900
to proceed on leave to India
5 mm (h) bar hanger (brooch) inscribed "U
Germany, Luftwaffe. An Observer Badge, Late-War Version with Case, by Paul Meybauer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic closing with a grey bakelite(Beobachterabzeichen mit Etui). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 eagle in position, with a narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from a circular plate, bearing a full makers mark of P. MEYBAUER,