A Scarce Civilian Luftwaffe Flak Helper’s Stick Pin Newly Listed In Witness Whereof Our Governor

In Witness Whereof Our Governor General of Our Dominion of Canada hath hereunto set his hand and Seal at Our Government House in the City of Ottawa this First day of August in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen and in the Sixth Year of Our Reign

Rose was mentioned in dispatches from the London Gazette 31448

representing the rank of Hauptwachtmeister (Chief Watch Master)

maker marked La Royale Rio Brasil on reverse

Operation Colossus

A Scarce Civilian Luftwaffe Flak Helper’s Stick Pin Newly Listed In Witness Whereof Our GovernorA scarce Luftwaffe Heimat und Alarm Flakartillerie (Homeland and Alarm Flak Artillery Stick Pin; in silvered zink; 40 mm pin; measuring 31 mm x 19 mm; slightly loose reverse pin, otherwise very fine condition. Footnote: This is a stick pin of one of the Heimat und Alarm Flakartillerie civil group, which consisted of factory and office employees in industrial areas, who were trained to to fire anti aircraft flak fire close to their place of work. This