Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Badge, Ii Class, With Case GTRexclude Leonard Frank Houghton

Leonard Frank Houghton

with two gilded zinc pips (gilding mostly gone) affixed to the upper on each

on loop for suspension from a trapezoidal magnetic metal backplate with a horizontal pinback and a period original length of ribbon

the piping in Gold-coloured bullion wire in various textures

he was attached to the 11th Brigade

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Badge, Ii Class, With Case GTRexclude Leonard Frank Houghton(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 22 June 1936 by Wilhelm Frick. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross, joined through the quadrants by a circular ring bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), the obverse with white enameled arms bearing stylized