Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 77 mm x 110 mm)

77 mm x 110 mm)

With meticulous care the author gives the full facts and figures of each change in design and every major and minor modification - some of which were made to meet the exigencies of the Services

Captain Schmidt-Salzmann and Colonel von Kleist declared themselves ready to do it together with ten officers from the 3rd Battalion of the “Boeselager” unit which was still in the process of formation

and a soldier with a shovel)

An Allied Soldier picked up this flag and added on German insignia

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 77 mm x 110 mm)(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 22 June 1936 by Wilhelm Frick. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by a circular ring bearing an obverse inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), the obverse of the cross with white enameled