Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Scarce Cloth Version Archive bearing a yellow machine-embroidered inscription

bearing a yellow machine-embroidered inscription of LANDUNGSGESCHWADER in Gothic script

A Luftwaffe Flugzeugführer cloth badge

measuring 48 mm (w) x 54 mm (h)

first in November 1914 and was assigned to the 500 Draft Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Reinforcements (but does not appear on the PPCLI rolls)

the RMS Leinster was torpedoed

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Scarce Cloth Version Archive bearing a yellow machine-embroidered inscriptionThis is a textbook example of a fine quality detailed manufacture of cloth version of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse); the obverse is constructed of fine hand embroidered twisted silver aluminum bullion threadings forming the signature white metal cross patte with a grey woven core replacing the blackened iron core, with a raised central mobile swastika and the re institution date 1939 on the lower arm; on a black wool