Germany, Heer. A Tropical Em/Nco’s Overseas Cap, C. 1943 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Cross Pattée of multi-piece

A Cross Pattée of multi-piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed border

Both he and his wife are buried in Mound View Cemetery in Mount Vernon

affixed onto a cream-coloured underside

20 mm x 135 mm)

Germany, Heer. A Tropical Em/Nco’s Overseas Cap, C. 1943 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Cross Pattée of multi-piece(Heer Schiffchen). An extremely well preserved Heer Tropical EM NCOs overseas cap, constructed of olive drab cotton twill. The cap is fully surrounded by fold down scalloped side panels, and is flanked on each side by a ventilation hole reinforced with a brown painted zink eyelet. Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia in the form of a light brown cotton backer bearing a machine embroidered silver grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed