Memorial Cross - Flying Officier 405Th Sqd certificate_of_authenticity 1579075 Sergeant Eric Wilfred Brown

1579075 Sergeant Eric Wilfred Brown (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner and R208832 Sergeant William Edward Martin (Maintenance Unit/Air Gunner)

before being drafted to one year later to the Light Cruiser H

1926 by the Lebanese government and awarded to French troops who assisted in the creation and stabilization of the new state created under French protection at the end of World War I from a province of the Ottoman Turkish Empire

and related Bevo style cloth patch

Accompanied by original case of issue

Memorial Cross - Flying Officier 405Th Sqd certificate_of_authenticity 1579075 Sergeant Eric Wilfred BrownElizabeth II. (J 26606 F O K. A. NORDHEIMER). Naming is officially engraved. Hallmarked, marked STERLING, crisp detail, beautiful patina. Accompanied by a black and white portrait studio photograph of him in uniform, 122 mm x 175 mm. Extremely fine. Footnote: Kenneth Albert Nordheimer was from Toronto, Ontario. He was a Flying Officer with the 405th City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. He was Killed in Action on August 17, 1944, at