Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Hold to match the 3rd Infantry

to match the 3rd Infantry Division patches

A 1930 Polish Cap Badge -  in stamped silvered brass

cost the equivalent of a doctor’s monthly salary

The only clear entry regarding active service spared from water damage on page 17 is that he served with the 3rd Reserve Paratrooper Battalion dater January 1945

with a black cotton backer on the reverse

Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Hold to match the 3rd Infantry(Salatgabel). Constructed of silver, featuring four sharpened prongs in barb shape, the obverse plain, the reverse stamped with a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above an unidentified academy insignia, with a silver mark of WMF 90 2,5 indicating German manufacture, measuring 46 mm (w) x 195 mm (l), weighing 57. 0 grams, in extremely fine condition.