Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Hold but with multiple stress rips

but with multiple stress rips in the rayon from handling

the hangers without wear in the bullion

brass three-prong suspension sewn to the reverse

the cemetery located twelve kilometres west of Ieper (Ypres)

second name from the left)

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Hold but with multiple stress rips(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, maker marked with the logo of F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid, 43. 84