Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge Archive A First War 43rd Infantry

A First War 43rd Infantry Battalion Glengarry Badge - Large "43" on circle with "BATT'N C

After two months at Kitchener Hospital

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription of “SCHULSCHIFF ADMIRAL KARPFANGER”

Lüdenscheid” underneath the pin

constructed of iron and a silvered metal alloy

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge Archive A First War 43rd Infantry(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 mobile swastika, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 92 mm (w) x 65. 78 mm (h),