Germany, Wehrmacht. An Afrikakorps Trench Art Flask Hold (Waffen-SS Verleihungsurkunde)

(Waffen-SS Verleihungsurkunde)

he was posted to the Canadian Artillery Regimental Depot at Shorncliffe and admitted to the 3rd Western General Hospital at Cardiff on April 15th

with a horizontal pinback soldered in place on the reverse

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 422 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

2) A 1984 German Naval League NCO Göttingen badge

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Afrikakorps Trench Art Flask Hold (Waffen-SS Verleihungsurkunde)(Deutsches Afrikakorps Grabenkunst Flasche). Constructed of a hand hammered silvered alloy case, the obverse bearing a hand etched palm tree, topped by dates 1942 1943 and situated above a 1939 Iron Cross, circumscribed by a circular laurel leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by a banner bearing an inscription of DEUTSCHES AFRIKAKORPS, the upper left corner bearing a makers mark, topped by a screw top lid affixed to a retractable bar to lock