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    He was in from beginning to end, the book being issued in Serptember 1939, and was one of the original tranches of personnel tranmsferred from the civil Gendarmerie into the Feldgendarmerie. Note his civil occupation is given as Polizei Wachmeister

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    Note the last two entries. I have seen the Feldgendarmerie Gorget listed in the kit issue pages before, but have never seen this

    The issue of 2 x Feldgendarmerie cuffbands, and a Feldgendarmerie sleeve eagle. :beer:

    Guest Rick Research
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    He was actually "DEMOTED" at the start of his army interlude--

    he was an ex-Polizei Wachtmeister (= Unteroffizier) when he was promoted (!) to Gefreiter in the army!

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    Not entirely unusual. I've seen others similar with lower ranks. Note that less than two months later he is promoted to Unteroffizier. I'm guessing that the transfer at one rank lower was until he completed his full military "conversion" training and was ready to be allocated to his first unit.

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