Germany, Luftwaffe. A Radio Operator Badge Auction 1956 and retired as Oberst

1956 and retired as Oberst on March 30

To Our trusty and well beloved Arthur Arnold Barrett

H-43 for five days

thirty Pips (twenty-one in bronze

Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Radio Operator Badge Auction 1956 and retired as Oberst(Luftwaffe Bordfunkerabzeichen). Instituted 1935 (Issued 1935 1942). A Radio operator Badge constructed of silvered nickel silver, consisting of a thick oval wreath with laurel leaves towards the left side of the wreath, oak leaves towards the right side, with a mobile swastika at the base, and an eagle superimposed in the centre with lightning bolts in its talons, the reverse plain with a vertical needle style pinback, barrel hinge, and a round wire