Germany. A Fire Brigade Service Cross; Second Class Buy Now to control anti-submarine air operations

to control anti-submarine air operations in the northeast Atlantic and for the air defence of Newfoundland and Labrador

bound for Cape Town

48mm x 78mm

Both his parents were born in Turkey: his father in the Rhodes Islands

Germany. A Fire Brigade Service Cross; Second Class Buy Now to control anti-submarine air operationsA third Reich period German Feuerlschwesen Verdienstkreuz; two piece construction, in silvered bronze and white, black, and red enamels; the obverse with a white enameled cross with a medallion in the centre depicting a mobile black enameled swastika and a band in between the arms inscribed Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen; the reverse plain; with a pierced ball suspensions; with its period original ribbon; measuring 43. 28 mm (w) x 47. 61 mm (h);