Germany, Heer. A Cavalry/Reconnaissance Standard Bearer’s Sleeve Insignia Newly Listed in the Military Collectors’ Club

in the Military Collectors’ Club of Canada Journal

George Ferguson

bronze gilt on metal with enamels

embossed Taylor Publishing Company insignia on the back cover

An early badge owned and worn by perhaps one of the first Luftwaffe Casualties of operations in France

Germany, Heer. A Cavalry/Reconnaissance Standard Bearer’s Sleeve Insignia Newly Listed in the Military Collectors’ Club(Abzeichen der Fahnen und Standartentrger). Constructed of a field grey cotton blend, the obverse bearing a central machine embroidered dark blue Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with feathering highlighted in silver grey threading, flanked on each side by machine embroidered multi coloured standards in golden yellow Cavalry Reconnaissance Waffenfarbe, with details highlighted in silver aluminum wire, above an oak leaf