Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold Royal Flying Corps - Distinguished

Royal Flying Corps - Distinguished Flying Cross

He was a Captain with the Welland Canal Field Force in Niagara Falls

due to the exertions of her officers

1917 when the USA entered the First World War

measuring 106 mm (w) x 147 mm (h)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold Royal Flying Corps - Distinguished(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronze zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, with a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four acorns and sun rays with dual acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, bearing the remnants of a designer mark of