Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne GTRexclude The Monte class of ships

The Monte class of ships were prescient of what was to come for the KdF

A DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz/German Red Cross) Schwesternschaft membership badge

as he was Killed in Action two weeks later during the Battle of the Somme

broken prongs on top

obverse with the right-facing conjoined busts of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Wilhelm II of Germany

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne GTRexclude The Monte class of ships(Fallschirmspringerabzeichen). Instituted on 5 November 1936 by Hermann Gring. (Issued 1936 1945). Consisting of an oval nickel silvered wreath, with laurel leaves on the left half of the wreath, and oak leaves on the right half of the wreath, with a central gilded tombak eagle clutching a mobile swastika in its talons, reverse marked with logo of maker F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid, two rivets visible, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback