Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge, With Recipient Photograph, C. 1918 Hold He was married to Annie

He was married to Annie Sill Crosby (nee Greenwood) and the couple had two sons: William Richard Crosby and Matthew Frank Crosby

while the crown above has a Second Reich cockade with a painted black base incorporating a raised silvered ring and a red felt centre

5 mm (h) x 41 mm (h) inclusive of its integral ring

in Cambridge

the six o’clock arm with a date of “1914” the twelve o’clock arm with a royal cross

Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge, With Recipient Photograph, C. 1918 Hold He was married to Annie(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 55 mm (w) x 71. 72 mm (h), weighing 20. 6 grams, with minor loss of finish evident,