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 (Datenblatten)

(Datenblatten)

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

Photograph: Three of Jagdgeschwader 27's top aces

77 mm x 110 mm)

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 (Datenblatten)(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