(Verdienstmedaille für Zivilverdienst)
original ribbon suspended from bronze gilt hanger bearing a bronze eagle on a navy blue background
loop marked “800” and “65”
He emigrated to Canada in 1929 and was a bodyguard at Lever Brothers Limited in Toronto
In the first one
Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, Ii Class Auction Archive (Verdienstmedaille für Zivilverdienst)(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered feinzink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a raised date of 1938, unmarked,