Germany, Third Reich. A Flak Badge, by C.E. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Poverty forced him to leave

Poverty forced him to leave school early and start working at the age of eleven

while amassing a total of 363 hours of volunteer work

well hallmarked on ring and loop

It moved to Berlin later that year and to Shackleton Barracks at Ballykelly in 1974 before returning to Meanee Barracks in Colchester in 1976

Germany, Third Reich. A Flak Badge, by C.E. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Poverty forced him to leave(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a replacement round wire catch emanating from an oval baseplate, unmarked but