he was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
as is the entire inside of the flying suit
Footnote: Laurence Ormsby Pearce was born and bred in Johannesburg
as part of the Army of Occupation on Germany
before returning to Washington for a four year tour in Research & Development (ArReschO OCRD = Office Chief of Research and Development
A First War German State Of Baden Medal Bar GTRexclude he was awarded the CanadianPrussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, with iron core, magnetic, unmarked, 43. 3 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (iron with a bronze coloured gilt, magnetic, maker marked with "JK" in a triangle (Josef Kopphold, Munich) on the reverse, 37. 8 mm); Baden: Civil Merit Medal, Type XI, Friedrich II (silvered war materials, 37. 5 mm); and Baden: Reserve Infantry Long Service Medal 1913 1918 (bronze, 25 mm). Mounted to a trapezoid