Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Service Belt and Buckle Auction Archive demonstrating loss of bronze finish

demonstrating loss of bronze finish to the award

Medal Of Merit For Volunteers

Grave: VIII

with push pin

having to resort to enlist increasing numbers of younger and older men during the last years of the war

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Service Belt and Buckle Auction Archive demonstrating loss of bronze finish(Heer Zweidorn Lederkoppel Ausfhrung fr Offiziere). A Heer Officers service belt and buckle, the former constructed of brown leather, one end perforated with nine sets of dual eyelets for an adjustable fit, the opposite end stitched into a loop for the accommodation of the latter, constructed of nickel plated feinzink, the belt unmarked, the buckle maker marked with the logo of F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid, along with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM)