Germany, Prussia, A First War Fliers Commemorative Badge by Paul Meybauer Hold WWI NZ Railway Engineer Battalion

WWI NZ Railway Engineer Battalion Cap Badge - In solid bronze

Silvered bronze with green

the obverse with a Gold center applique with royal blue coloured enamels with a Gold standing lion in the centre

the other two missing their screwbacks)

She was from Kiel and may have been a girl he met when U-296 was in port in Kiel

Germany, Prussia, A First War Fliers Commemorative Badge by Paul Meybauer Hold WWI NZ Railway Engineer Battalion(Flieger Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a ribbon, topped by a semi hollow German State Crown, around a central eagle set over a background, just above a rural landscape, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Paul Meybauer