Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge GTRexclude Protruding from the second button

Protruding from the second button hole from the top is the silhouette of the ribbon of the Iron Cross 2nd Class

Private Cruise embarked Halifax

tape label affixed to the reverse inscribed in handwritten ink "July 27th 1918"

France on July 15th

when he took over command of the R

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge GTRexclude Protruding from the second button(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central stylized lightning bolt emanating from a cloud and striking the ground, overlaid by a silvered Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a single visible rivet securing the obverse eagle in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire