Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Hold inscribed "Unser Helden-Flieger / Leutnant

inscribed "Unser Helden-Flieger / Leutnant Parschau" below and "380 / Postkartenvertrieb W

For many years he took a keen interest in badminton

A First War Group to Captain Woods

1940 he was awarded the War Merit Cross with Swords

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Hold inscribed "Unser Helden-Flieger / Leutnant(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering pinback, the latter maker marked with LDO code