Germany, SA. A 1936 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Competition Victor’s Plaque, with Case, by Carl Poellath Auction many pilots chose to wear

many pilots chose to wear civilian watches

He is commemorated on page 123 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance and is remembered with honour on the Halifax Memorial

1944 and disembarked in France a month later

the exterior featuring an intricate raised design consisting of a central 1914 Iron Cross

Germany, SA. A 1936 SA-Gruppe Hochland Winter Sports Competition Victor’s Plaque, with Case, by Carl Poellath Auction many pilots chose to wear(Plakette der Wintersportwoche der SA 1936 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching an edelweiss defaced by a Sturmabteilung (SA) insignia, flanked by an inscription of DER FHRER DER SA GRUPPE HOCHLAND (THE LEADER OF SA GROUP HOCHLAND), circumscribed by an inscription of WINTERKMPFE DER GLIEDERUNGEN DER N. S. D. A. P. OBERSCHREIBERHAU (WINTER SPORTS GAMES OF THE DIVISIONS OF THE NSDAP