Robin Lumsden

And a variant.......

Cap skull......

Button......

Sleeve badge....

Sleeve badge of light artillery detachment, Freikorps Gerth.......

And the back.......

Steel helmet.......

Field cap......

Their cap.......

Iron Division......(replacement ribbon)

Some more......

More.......

And some more.......

More Freikorps 'ethos'......

And some Freikorps tankers.

The skull used on the frontispiece of a book about the Freikorps dating from the '30s.......

Here's the arm badge of Minenwerfer Sturmdetachment Heuschkel.

Hello Robin,

This sign unusual in that it isn't enamel, it's a sort of pressed wood. I've never seen wooden ones before.

Tony

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Me neither. They're usually enamelled iron. Probably an economy measure.

Thanks!

They are called the Hamburg cross I believe.

Issued to troops from Hamburg???

Anyone know for sure????

The Deutsches Feldehrenzeichen was an unofficial 'vanity' award made by the German 1914-18 War Veterans' Association based in Leipzig and Hamburg. The Association also awarded the Somme Cross, the Verdun Cross etc. to members who had served in these campaigns. The Feldehrenzeichen went to all Association members who had served at the front in the Great War. The only connection with Hamburg was that the Association had offices there.

Tony.

The NSV was the NS-Volkswohlfahrt, the social welfare department of the Nazi Party. It looked after the welfare of Party members and was eventually controlled by the Allgemeine-SS.