Germany, Heer. An EM/NCO’s Breast Eagle, Uniform Cut-Off Example certificate_of_authenticity Private Romeo Benoit was Killed

Private Romeo Benoit was Killed in Action during this offensive

each board with a silvered Engineer cypher and a gilt pip designating the rank of Oberleutant

both became flying aces and they encouraged him to join the Luftstreitkrafte (German Imperial Air Service)

seventeen days shy of his twenty-fifth birthday

Germany, Heer. An EM/NCO’s Breast Eagle, Uniform Cut-Off Example certificate_of_authenticity Private Romeo Benoit was Killed(Heer Brustadler fr Mannschaften). Constructed of dark green rayon, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered silver grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, affixed to an extract of field grey cloth cut off from a Heer servicemans tunic, unmarked, the eagle measuring 100 mm (w) x 40 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.