Germany, Army. A Wehrmacht Issue Flak Badge by C.E. Juncker with Vertical Oblong Catch Hold XVIII - The Experimental Rifle

XVIII - The Experimental Rifle Corps

Marguerite Catherine "Sadie" McKinney Colquhoun

inscribed "CARL LIPPOLD

maroon felt in the crown

full-time members of the Indian Recruiting Organization

Germany, Army. A Wehrmacht Issue Flak Badge by C.E. Juncker with Vertical Oblong Catch Hold XVIII - The Experimental Rifle(Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a squared off wire catch soldered to a vertical oblong baseplate