Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Steinhauer & Lück Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the National Order of Merit

the National Order of Merit

Footnote: The Order of the Spanish Republic (Orden de la República Española) was instituted by the government of the Second Spanish Republic in 1932

Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription "HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH

Beike served in the 2nd Battery of Panzer Artillery Regiment 19

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Steinhauer & Lück Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the National Order of Merit(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oblong plate, unmarked but demonstrating the