Japan, Constitutional Monarch. An Air Self-Defense Force Badges Hold with the Pozieres/Bapaume Road

with the Pozieres/Bapaume Road

3rd Class with Swords (bronze

which condensed much of what was written about him by biographers of the time

he continued his military service by signing his Attestation Paper with the Canadian Mounted Rifles on April 21

Six and a half weeks later he was appointed Acting Corporal on May 29

Japan, Constitutional Monarch. An Air Self-Defense Force Badges Hold with the Pozieres/Bapaume RoadDirect Air Command Badge (three piece construction, bronze gilt with green and white enamelled disk, mounted to a silvered metal wings base, unmarked, 21. 5 mm x 80. 2 mm, dual screwposts intact, without screwbacks); Navy Pilot's Badge (bronze gilt, 19. 8 mm x 60. 7 mm, horizontal pinback); Flight Surgeon Badge (silvered metal, 20. 5 mm x 60 mm, dual screwbacks); and Pilot Wing (yellow embroidered insignia, on a black nylon base, 21 mm x 47 mm).