Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, Grand Cross with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example by Gebrüder Godet Auction Archive He was “An ‘old’ boy

He was “An ‘old’ boy of Harbord Collegiate Institute

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He would return to Canada in 1919

some wearing the Bavarian Pilot's Badge

including an original wax paper liner

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, Grand Cross with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example by Gebrüder Godet Auction Archive He was “An ‘old’ boy(Deutsches Adlerorden, Grokreuz mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, joined together through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the obverse overlaid across the three and nine oclock arm with a pair of crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan