Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type II Republic of He was promoted to 2nd

He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant (Flying Officer) with the Royal Flying Corps

His favourite recreations were shooting and fishing

both set on a 74 mm-long aluminum bar with a horizontal pinback

1944 and signed in faded black ink by Battalion Commander

reverse plain with block hinge and wide banjo-style pinback meeting round wire catch

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type II Republic of He was promoted to 2ndInstituted August 1 1924. Type II (1941 1943). Variation II. In silver and red and white enamels, a flat reverse type, the obverse consisting of gilded circular wreath, joined together at the bottom by a red enamelled banner bearing silvered Russian Cyrcillic letters , surrounding a central white enamelled medallion overlaid by a bayonet, hammer, and plough, in turn bearing a red enamelled star defaced by a silvered hammer and sickle on a field of