A Mint Drk (German Red Cross) Enlisted Man’s Belt Buckle Auction In January 1943 he was

In January 1943 he was promoted Leutnant

culminating in a disastrous Daily Telegraph interview that cost him most of his power in 1908

to the left thigh on July 1st 1917

4th Class - Bronze

with all four cords joined at six positions within a 22 mm x 43 mm patch of fine gold-coloured aluminum wire

A Mint Drk (German Red Cross) Enlisted Man’s Belt Buckle Auction In January 1943 he wasA mint example of a DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz German Red Cross) Enlisted Mans belt buckle; in cast aluminum with a gunpowder grey finish; the obverse with a pebbled field featuring an eagle perched atop a Red Cross, with a mobile swastika on its chest, surrounded by an oval open ended laurel wreath; the reverse with standard double claw prongs and integrated catch; maker marked OCL for Overhoff & Cie, Ldenscheid and Ges. Gesch. on the reverse;