reverse engraved "A / JEAN RIGA / INCENDIE / A CLERMONT / LE 29 AOUT /1882" inside an open-ended wreath with "P" and "R" centre by a rose at its base
Footnote: Hans-Joachim Jabs (14 November 1917 – 26 October 2003) was both a day and night fighter ace in the German Luftwaffe during World War II
The helmet measures 226 mm (w) x 281 mm (h)
Baur was only released and returned to Germany in October of 1955
of Folkestone
Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal, With Case Auction Archive reverse engraved "A / JEAN(Sudetenland Medaille mit Etui). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse with two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central date of 1. OKTOBER 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FHRER, measuring