A First War "In Flanders Fields" Framed Artwork Auction 11 mm x 18 mm)

11 mm x 18 mm)

The memo went onto stress that any man who could be spared to join the colours should not be badged and that any man ceasing to perform essential war work or leaving the company is to return his badge to his employer and that the unauthorised transfer of a badge to another man was forbidden

this fine Pour le Merite was awarded to Major Fritz Wulf - Battalion Commander

Instituted in 1861

His father was a Leather Worker by trade and served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

A First War "In Flanders Fields" Framed Artwork Auction 11 mm x 18 mm)A First War "In Flanders Fields" Framed Artwork Artwork painted in multiple watercolours, illustrating grave markers at the right amidst the remnants of a battlefield, a torch in the left foreground of the illustration with the heading to the right of the torch in red, inscribed "InFlanders Fields", with the poem inscribed below in Old English type: "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the