Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal, with Case Hold The hip pockets open with

The hip pockets open with diagonal slits and reinforced pocket flaps

This a very early Luftwaffe Officers belt with drop tail

while an array of loops situated above the same pocket accommodate a medal or ribbon bar

An SS Soldbuch

Official records further confirm that his Medal was sent to him at 2 Percy Villas

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal, with Case Hold The hip pockets open with(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a double sided circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a central raised institution date