Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold, with Case Republic of The British Army's Royal Flying

The British Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS)

a rare award in overall better than very fine condition

Measuring 80 mm in diameter

Footnote: As the Canadian Expeditionary Force continued to increase in size

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold, with Case Republic of The British Army's Royal Flying(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse Gold mit Etui). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 94 mm (w) x 49. 52 mm (h), weighing 21. 8 grams,