An Iron Honour Shield Of Luftgau Xi Award Document To Hauptmann Mayer Newly Listed with a two-piece insignia incorporating

with a two-piece insignia incorporating a silver tank on an enamelled base

Showing early promise

with the wound becoming septic in January 1916

Footnote: early Franco period insignia is of far superior quality and scarcer in comparison to post 1960 issued insignia

and showed fine leadership

An Iron Honour Shield Of Luftgau Xi Award Document To Hauptmann Mayer Newly Listed with a two-piece insignia incorporatingA certificate, measuring 209mm x 296mm, near extremely fine condition with folding creases. It states that Hauptmann (Captain) Friedrich Mayer, Commander of Aerial Service Command 1 11 is awarded the Iron Honour Shield of Luftgau XI for his merits in target training methods. The document is dated to Hamburg on October 7, 1942 and signed in blue crayon by General der Flieger Ludwig Wolff (18861950), a recipient of the Knights Cross of the War Merit