Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Medal, Ii Class Hold a Heer Jäger officer’s collar

a Heer Jäger officer’s collar tab

catch broken off otherwise in very fine condition

along with his cousin Lieutenant John Robertson Duigan would fly together in France as pilots in 3rd Squadron of the then fledgling Australian Flying Corps (later the Royal Australian Flying Corps)

also inside of a laurel leaf border

the reverse centre bearing the Bavarian crowned lion rampant within a circular border in the form of a buckled belt dated 1866

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Medal, Ii Class Hold a Heer Jäger officer’s collar(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring 40. 11 mm (w) x