Germany, Imperial. A Private Wartime Photo Album Of Pilot, Ace & Honour Goblet Winner Nco Steudel Archive when the party was blown

when the party was blown up by a shell

with clasp attached to ribbon “Vor Dem Feinde” (clasp represented an award for service on the front)

and a single nut (the other has been lost through time)

The cockades support a blackened bronze chain link chin strap with a black leather backer

Croix de Guerre with crown suspension and bronze palm on ribbon

Germany, Imperial. A Private Wartime Photo Album Of Pilot, Ace & Honour Goblet Winner Nco Steudel Archive when the party was blownThe photo album contains 22 photos, 10 of which come as a loose addition. Several are dated to 1916. It also contains several newspaper cutouts and obituaries, telling the tragic story of the Steudel family from Frankenberg in Saxony. The album measures 218 (w) mm x 150 (h) mm, with age appropriate scuffing and minimal fraying of the cover, remaining in near very fine condition. The photos show either pilot Theodor Karl Steudel, his brother Hermann,