Germany, Heer. A Serviceman’s Wristwatch, by Grana, Allied Retrieval from Buchenwald Archive Footnote: William Charles Kempert was

Footnote: William Charles Kempert was born in Princeton Ontario in 1893 and worked as a Telegraph Operator prior to enlisting in the CEF in September 1915

He achieved the City of Edmonton Award of Excellence in the Sports Hall of Fame and founded the Military Collectors Club of Canada

a maker’s mark of “BR

awarded to the Correspondent Harry Alexander Blechschmidt in Chemnitz on 30 July 1935

surmounted by a decorative arabesque

Germany, Heer. A Serviceman’s Wristwatch, by Grana, Allied Retrieval from Buchenwald Archive Footnote: William Charles Kempert was(Heer Dienstuhr). A Heer servicemans wristwatch, constructed of a plated steel casing with a black dial, featuring hour marks 1 12 in Arabic numerals, with an additional 60 second stopwatch at the lower half, retaining all hands and the majority of its luminescent radium paint to both the hands and numerals, with a functional crown emanating from the side, the caseback stamped with a mark of STAHLBODEN (STEEL BOTTOM), a serial number of 277002 flanked