Germany, Luftwaffe. A Demjansk Shield consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac ILES MARQUISES

ILES MARQUISES

During the Balkan Wars and the First World War

surrounded by the inscription 1914 1918 at 11 and 3 o’clock

swastika in gilded wires

the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Demjansk Shield consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac ILES MARQUISES(rmelschild Demjansk). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised plane overlaid by a pair of crossed swords, above a date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK and dual log pillboxes flanked a German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a zink backplate with grey wool liner indicating Luftwaffe issue, retaining a partially intact