Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (Sturmabteilung Wimpel)

(Sturmabteilung Wimpel)

with a finely enameled black background

Anthony Baird Mitchell

Jean Antoinette Mackenzie (nee Barker)

Morice helped form 121 Wing of the Tactical Air Force and having by then flown every type of operational fighter aircraft and been advanced to the acting rank of Group Captain

Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (Sturmabteilung Wimpel)Constructed of aluminum, the obverse bearing a central hand etched heart pierced by a sword and anchor, flanked by dates 1914 1915, and topped by dedications of ZUM ANDENKEN GEFANGENEN LAGER CROSSEN A O (IN MEMORY OF PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CROSSEN AN ODER, now Krosno Odrzaskiem, Poland) and AUGUST GUST, the reverse bearing a hand etched Imperial Russian eagle overlaid by the monograms of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, surrounded along the edges