Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Schlageter Memorial Association 10-Year Honour Badge, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac light wear on the obverse

light wear on the obverse

stating his correct birth date as March 22

George V (Major J

The Battalion sailed from Canada on October 3

A group of early Wehrmacht rank insignia

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Schlageter Memorial Association 10-Year Honour Badge, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac light wear on the obverse(10 Jahres Ehrenzeichen des Schlageter Gedchtnis Bund). Constructed of silvered tombak with enamels, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a ring bearing an inscription of ALBERT LEO SCHLAGETER and dates 1923 26. MAI 1933, overlaid by a Maltese Cross with ribbed arms, bearing a central swastika circumscribed by an inscription of SCHLAGETER GEDCHTNIS BUND E. V., the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a