Germany, Heer. An EM/NCO’s Tropical Belt and Buckle, by Gustav Brehmer Newly Listed (Kriegsverdienstkruez 2 Klass mit Schwerten)

(Kriegsverdienstkruez 2 Klass mit Schwerten)

as well as to civil servants who served honourably for twenty years or more prior to January 1

The Battalion disbanded on August 30

He was wounded on July 3rd 1916 at Ypres

The insignia are worn suspended from black silk moire ribbons of various widths

Germany, Heer. An EM/NCO’s Tropical Belt and Buckle, by Gustav Brehmer Newly Listed (Kriegsverdienstkruez 2 Klass mit Schwerten)(Heer Tropen Grtel mit Schnalle fr Mannschaften). A Heer EM NCOs tropical belt and buckle commonly worn throughout the Mediterranean and North African theatres, the former constructed of olive drab canvas webbing, one end stitched into a loop to retain a magnetic metal clip, the opposite end stitched with a hidden canvas tongue perforated with an array of dual eyelets for an adjustable fit, with the end topped by an additional layer of dark grey