Germany, Federal Republic. A German Cross in Gold, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 visually-hidden the Belgian Independent Parachute Company

the Belgian Independent Parachute Company was officially integrated into the British Special Air Service Brigade and renamed the Belgian Special Air Service Squadron

in gilt zink

1951 and was revised in 1967 and 1973

leather tab with a suede-like finished light brown upper and raw underside stitched in place to the underside of the belt on the left end

Germany, Federal Republic. A German Cross in Gold, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 visually-hidden the Belgian Independent Parachute Company(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold, Museumsstck). Constructed of a silvered and gilded bronze alloy with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a double overlaid eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central silvered disc overlaid by a black enameled mobile swastika, situated within a circular gilded laurel leaf wreath, wrapped in ribbon and joined together at the bottom by a plaque bearing an institution date of 1941, with red enameled rings