Third Reich : Portrait Postcard Photo of an Army Private Soldier.

Very young looking private soldier (arm-of-service not known) wearing a M40 tunic with plain piped field-grey epaulettes. No unit identification visible. Excellent condition.  read more

Code: 52923

WW2 1944 dated War Office 1:50,000 Map of Düsseldorf area.

Original 78cms x 59cms (approx 2'-6" x 2'-0") military map drawn and lithographically printed covering the city and surrounding areas. The reverse is plain. The map has been folded and clearly used but is in very good condition without tears.  read more

Code: 52922

Pair of "Royal Regt. of Fusiliers" Machine-embroidered Cloth Shoulder-titles.

Machine-embroidered in white on red. Mint unissued condition after a stock of these was found in a long forgotten redundant QM stores....  read more

Code: 52921

USA : Army Commendation Medal named to Jerry L.Hudson.

Bronze hexagonal medal with green & white silk ribbon. The medal is engraved on the reverse with the recipients name 'Jerry L.Hudson'. Excellent condition.
A quick check of US Army records came up with 3,624 entries for a Jerry L Hudson so I have not as yet been able to pin him down. !!
This award started life in 1944 as a ribbon and eventually took on its present medallic form...  read more

Code: 52920

Pair of "Army Catering Corps" Machine-embroidered Shoulder titles.

Machine-embroidered in silver-grey on yellow. Mint unissued condition after a stock of these was found in a long forgotten redundant QM stores.  read more

Code: 52918

Imperial ; German Imperial Army Leutnant's Single Slip-on Epaulette of Infanterie-Regiment 343.

Silver-wire braids with black chevrons on white backing with gilt numerals '343'. The top is fine with just natural age wear. The white backing has some mothing.
This regiment formed part of the 172nd Infantry Brigade within the 86th Infantry Division and spent most of WW1 on the Eastern Front. After the armistice with Russia, the unit moved to the Western Front in January 1918 and part...  read more

Code: 51300

Third Reich ; Luftschutzwarndienst "L.S.Warndienst" Arm / Cuff-title.

Machine-woven lettering in silver-grey on a green 50mm wide band. Full 39cms length. The band has some very minor clicks through service-wear and is in very good condition. The LSW was the air-raid warning service who wore air-force blue uniforms on which this arm / cuff-tilte was worn on either the upper or lower left sleeve.  read more

Code: 52204

Third Reich : Army Casualty Memorial Card.

Memorial card commemorating 18 year-old Grenadier Alois Bachl who fell on 29th August 1944, three weeks short of his 19th birthday. He was killed in the area of Sterz Budz am Bug in Russia  read more

Code: 52917

Third Reich : Army Casualty Memorial Card.

Card commemorating Gefreiter Hermann Schottmayer from a Schützen-Regiment who was killed on 21st February 1942 in Russia.  read more

Code: 52916

Third Reich : Army Casualty Memorial Card.

Card commemorating 38 year-old Obergefreiter Thomas Kienle who served with a Grenadier Regiment and died from severe wounds on 28th March 1945 in a reserve-hospital in Reinbeck near Hamburg. He was a recipient of the EK2, Infantry Assault Badge and Wound badge.  read more

Code: 52915