Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 54 mm x 33

measuring 54 mm x 33 mm

sewn in place on a black velvet strip

and before it left my line of vision I saw two (2) chutes come out of the waist of the plane

Many of the practices and ideals set forth by the ARP lived on beyond the War thorough Civil Defence during the Cold War and still exist today in civilian organizations in the United Kingdom and the United States

A pair of Flak collar tabs

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 54 mm x 33(Frstlich Lippischer Hausorden Silbernes Verdienstkreuz). Instituted 25 October 1869 by Prince Paul Friedrich Emil Leopold of Lippe Detmold and Prince Adolf Georg of Schaumburg Lippe. (1869 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, with each arm completing in ball finials, the obverse bearing a central raised and crowned monogram of Prince Adolf Georg on a pebbled background, circumscribed by an institution