Germany, Third Reich. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Disputed Maker Lind & Meyrer, c. 1944 Republic of (Luftwaffe Offizier Dienstdolch)

(Luftwaffe Offizier Dienstdolch)

He is buried in Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension

and Ferdinand Maurice Felix West (original signature of "FMF West Air C" in blue ink on a printed page

Air Weapons Control

edged weapons

Germany, Third Reich. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Disputed Maker Lind & Meyrer, c. 1944 Republic of (Luftwaffe Offizier Dienstdolch)(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Instituted August 31st, 1940. Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath joined together at the base by a ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounded by a stylized depiction of a sea mine exploding, the reverse with a crimped sheet metal hinge, vertical round wire pin, with a crimped rightward opening