Germany, NSFK. A 1938 Silesian Glider Flight Participant’s Plaque Newly Listed 8 mm (h) x 50

8 mm (h) x 50 mm (w) inclusive of suspension

constructed of silvered bronze with multi-coloured machine embroidery

Barrett was sent to Mesopotamia with his division and occupied the city of Basra later that month

the reverse retaining a fully-intact RZM label bearing a maker’s code of “A4/427” and a secondary code of “407854”

marked on reverse bottom "L 54"

Germany, NSFK. A 1938 Silesian Glider Flight Participant’s Plaque Newly Listed 8 mm (h) x 50(Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps Segelflug Erinnerungs Plakette). Constructed of cupal, the obverse bearing a raised NSFK insignia in the form of Icarus defaced by a mobile swastika, topped by an inscription of NAT. SOZ. FLIEGERKORPS, and situated above an inscription indicating that the plaque was issued to participants of the 8th Silesian Glider Flight Competition from NSFK Groups 4 and 6 in 1938, unmarked, measuring 66 mm (w) x 80 mm (h),