Germany, Wehrmacht. A Balloon Observer’s Badge, Gold Grade, Post-1957 Reissue Auction Archive and Navy Good Conduct Medal

and Navy Good Conduct Medal (bronze gilt

His signing took place only four days after that of his brother's in Fredericton

France: Order of the Legion of Honour (silver gilt and enamels

and the centre with a raised tri-colour cockade (silver

signing his Attestation Paper as a Private (166611) with the 2nd Pioneer Battalion on September 27

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Balloon Observer’s Badge, Gold Grade, Post-1957 Reissue Auction Archive and Navy Good Conduct Medal(Ballonbeobachterabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse depicting an an observation balloon bearing a Balkan Cross, inside an oval oak leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 41. 83 mm (w) x 52. 70 mm (h), weighing 36. 2 grams, in near mint condition.