Neck cross
in that it is a very early version of it that is not found on documents from the late 1930s anymore
Underneath this pocket sits a smaller pocket with a reinforced horizontal slit opening that connects to the exterior lower left breast pocket
Footnote: The 12th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops was formed in the spring of 1918 by the conversion and re-designation of the 3rd Labour Battalion
photos of wounded soldiers in a hospital
Germany, SS. An Unissued Waffen-SS Foreign Volunteer Collar Tab, Disputed Nationality Auction Archive Neck cross(Waffen SS Einzel Kragenspiegel fr Freiwillige). Constructed of black wool with a buckram core, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered closed sunwheel style mobile swastika or Celtic Cross wheel, the reverse showing classic Dachau style white threading, unmarked, measuring 40 mm (w) x 55 mm (l), demonstrating minor material fatigue, in near extremely fine condition. Footnote: While indisputably of period manufacture, the unit attribution for this