Germany, RLB. An Enlisted Ranks Belt Buckle, First Pattern United Republic of Footnote: The 45th West Durham

Footnote: The 45th West Durham Battalion of Infantry was organized with headquarters at Bowmanville and four companies in Bowmanville

a slightly shortened but otherwise unaltered example

including a studio photo

July 26 1945

Inskip 1st Bn

Germany, RLB. An Enlisted Ranks Belt Buckle, First Pattern United Republic of Footnote: The 45th West Durham(Reichsluftschutzbund Grtelschnalle fr Mannschaften, 1. Form). Constructed of pebbled and silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a central RLB style German national eagle clutching a wreathed and blackened swastika, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a loop and attachment claws emanating from a functional roller, unmarked, measuring 62 mm (w) x 48 mm (h), a first pattern buckle in