Latvia, First Republic. A Latvijas Vanagi (Latvian Hawks) Member’s Badge, With Documents, By O. Pērkons & A. Kucejevs Hold This is a Christmas gift

This is a Christmas gift from the Grand Duchess Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and her husband Ernst Ludwig von Hessen to the troops in Hessen

second and third line trenches

51 mm (w) x 63

before leaving the service

Latvia, First Republic. A Latvijas Vanagi (Latvian Hawks) Member’s Badge, With Documents, By O. Pērkons & A. Kucejevs Hold This is a Christmas giftThis is a lot of extremely well preserved documents and photographs pertaining to Latvian exiles and United States Army forces in immediate post Second War Germany. It includes: A large black and white photograph depicting a biplane, bearing mobile swastika insignias on its upper wings, crashed in a trench. The photograph is unmarked and measures 142 mm (w) x 93 mm (h). Accompanied by four smaller black and white photographs depicting Latvian airmen