Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal, with Case GTRexclude a few are blackened

a few are blackened

The shoulders are adorned with epaulette straps in aluminum bullion wire

and 3rd Class (gilt non-magnetic metal

A Queen's South Africa Medal to the Lancashire Fusiliers -

the obverse with a raised central “W

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal, with Case GTRexclude a few are blackened(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a double sided circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a central raised institution date