Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval Hold interior marked 1836 JOHNSON

interior marked 1836 JOHNSON

each tassel consisting of ten 200 mm long strands of twisted yellow and white nylon cord and tied together at their mid-points via matching yellow and white nylon threading

the reverse bearing a central gilded medallion overlaid by a raised monogram of King Wilhelm I

Marguerite (born 1893) and John (born 1895)

and the distribution of the wreckage and bodies suggests that the aircraft exploded before hitting the ground

Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval Hold interior marked 1836 JOHNSON(Heer Schulterklappen fr Mannschaften). A lot of five wartime Heer issue shoulder straps for Enlisted ranks, each constructed of field grey wool and bearing red embroidered regimental numbers, three trimmed with white piping, and one retaining a reverse paper label bearing a handwritten inscription of TAKEN AT ST. ELOI APRIL 1916 147 C. E. (corresponding to the Battle of the St. Eloi Craters, in which the 2nd Canadian Division was heavily engaged), of