Austria, Empire. A Field Pilot's Badge, Type Ii, Karl I (1917) Archive 1922 by royal decree and

1922 by royal decree and awarded to Belgian citizens deported to Germany for forced labour during the First World War

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the Medical Board there recommending that Allen be invalided to Canada

he served in the 2nd Company of Kriegsgefangenen-Arbeits-Bataillon (POW Labour Battalion) 187 in occupied Norway

Austria, Empire. A Field Pilot's Badge, Type Ii, Karl I (1917) Archive 1922 by royal decree andTwo piece construction, bronze gilt eagle, affixed to a base in bronze gilt with red, white and green enamels, the base illustrating a wreath of oak leaves with the shield on Karl I at its bottom and surmounted by the Austrian and Hungarian crowns, measuring 60. 5 mm (w) x 59 mm (h), vertical pinback, chipping evident in the green enamels on the wreath, crazing in the white enamels on the shield, the cross on the Hungarian crown broken off, overall