Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Honour Medal, Ii Class With Case Hold beginning what would prove to

beginning what would prove to be a fourteen month interval in France

Footnote: William Ernest Burgess served as a Private (S4/058911) in the Army Service Corps during WWI and entered the French theatre on May 8

on original ribbons with broaches

four leaf clover

nee Schneider

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Honour Medal, Ii Class With Case Hold beginning what would prove to(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, II. Stufe mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse with a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse with a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring 38.