Germany, Hj. A Proficiency Badge, Silver Grade, By Adolf Schwerdt GTRexclude Lieutenant Lee exhibited extreme courage

Lieutenant Lee exhibited extreme courage in the course of a long and dangerous photographic and visual reconnaissance in the region of Mezieres with two other planes of the 24th Aero Squadron

Pottinger H

Based in Britain throughout the rest of the war

but only known maker was "Braca Knaus

the reverse inscribed “Das Grosse Deutsche Reich ist Erstanded” (The Great German Reich has Emerged)

Germany, Hj. A Proficiency Badge, Silver Grade, By Adolf Schwerdt GTRexclude Lieutenant Lee exhibited extreme courage(HJ Leistungsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of a Sig rune overlaid by a mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR LEISTUNGEN IN DER H. J. (FOR MERIT IN THE H. J.), the reverse with a vertical pinback, maker marked AD. SCHWERDT, STUTTGART, with issue number 17150, measuring 29. 81 mm (w) x 51. 69 mm (h), weighing 7. 6 grams, in very fine condition.