A British Air Observation Post Officer Pilot Badge Hold Iron Cross 1st Class award

Iron Cross 1st Class award document

black reinforced cloth backer

3rd son of William J

He was wounded three times in 1943 and once in 1944

26 mm x 45

A British Air Observation Post Officer Pilot Badge Hold Iron Cross 1st Class awardLight blue and yellow embroidered insignia with red stitched "UBIQUE" lettering, on a black wool base, 42 mm x 89 mm, uniform worn, extremely fine. Footnote: On September 8, 1948, Army Council Instructions 808 approved a special flying badge for Air Observation Post Officer Pilots to wear, instead of the Army Flying Badge. It was to be "a pair of pale blue wings with a grenade and scroll beneath in old gold bearing the motto 'UBIQUE' (Latin for