Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Flak Badge by Unknown Maker with Signature Ball Hinge GTRexclude Dominion of Canada Rifle Association

Dominion of Canada Rifle Association Medal (in bronze with red and blue enamels

(Issued 1915-1918)

IHM SEI DIE EHRE” (“GOD WAS WITH US

the reverse presents the royal monogram on a white enamel field with a blue enamel exterior ring

In hindsight

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Flak Badge by Unknown Maker with Signature Ball Hinge GTRexclude Dominion of Canada Rifle Association(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted July 18th, 1941. (c. 1942 1943). Constructed of Neusilber (nickel silver), the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge, straight round wire pin, and crimped flat wire