He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (60022) with the 21st Infantry Battalion on November 6
on one occasion writing off a two-litre Lagonda in a collision with a London taxi
(Heer Aufklärungs-Abteilung Kragenspiegel)
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Additional vertical slits at the ankles
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Clasp To The Iron Cross 1939, I Class, Type Ii Archive He signed his Attestation Paper(Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a detailed Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 45. 32 mm (w) x 30. 80 mm (h), weighing 9. 8 grams, with some loss of finish evident, in overall near extremely fine