Germany, Wehrmacht. An Identity Badge of the Military Administration of France visually-hidden and bearing dark green splinters

and bearing dark green splinters throughout

manufactured circa 1930s

he boarded the steamship ‘Colombo’ to Turkey to serve in the Crimean War as a Colour Sergeant

bearing four bands of brown threaded piping interspersed with silver aluminum wire

Buffalo Volunteer Rifles Corps

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Identity Badge of the Military Administration of France visually-hidden and bearing dark green splinters(Wehrmacht Dienstabzeichen fr Angestellte der Militrverwaltung Belgien und Nord Frankreich). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of an oval disc, finished in a Wehrmacht red, white, and black tri colour motif, the black enameled band bearing a silvered inscription of MILITRVERWALTUNG FRANKREICH (MILITARY ADMINISTRATION FRANCE), overlaid by a silvered Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika,