An Nsfk Gliders Badge Archive British Empire Servce League Medal

British Empire Servce League Medal

Footnote: Percy Roland Brisbin was born September 20th 1880 in St

thus becoming a "cause celebre" of the peacetime Navy

the latter being his Military Exemption Certificate

1937 shattered public faith in the safety of hydrogen-filled airships making the continuation of their commercial passenger operations unsustainable unless the Graf Zeppelin and the still under construction LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II could convert to non-flammable helium

An Nsfk Gliders Badge Archive British Empire Servce League MedalFour piece construction, silver die forged iron, magnetic, marked "EIGENTUM des NS FLIEGERKORPS" (Property of the NS Air Corps), "GES. GESCH. 29240 " (Gesetzlich Geschtzt), 45. 3 mm x 46. 3 mm, uncommon round pin, near very fine.