Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Honour Decoration, Ii Class With Case United Republic of The signature is illegible

The signature is illegible

effective April 1

A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch depicting the Nordmark regional coat of arms and Frisian-language motto “lewer dod as slov” (“better dead than a slave”)

the hanger is maker marked “N

Lieutenant Browne is mentioned in the Unit History of 1917

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Honour Decoration, Ii Class With Case United Republic of The signature is illegible(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised central mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR PROTECTION), the reverse bearing a raised central date of 1938,