Original WWI French Battlefield Excavated Relic Collection - Helmet, Canteen, Barbed Wire, Inert F-1 Grenade Shells & More! German Flags The banner is marked as

The banner is marked as being for the area of “ELTEN” and has the date of establishment as 1887

Infanterie-Division

mostly post WW1 cans are encountered and many of these saw service in WW2

We do not know if it is a late war Ersatz replacement

which is attached to a belt hanger clip

Original WWI French Battlefield Excavated Relic Collection - Helmet, Canteen, Barbed Wire, Inert F-1 Grenade Shells & More! German Flags The banner is marked asOriginal Ground Dug Items: Only One Lot of Available. This is fantastic! During WWI much of North East France and the surrounding areas became part of "No man's land", where constant trench warfare reduced the environment to a blasted out, desolate area. Repeated charges and changes in the front left huge amounts of material behind, often buried by later trench works, artillery fire, and the like, which means that for many years to come, any type of