Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Early Fire Brigade Belt Buckle Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic issued in Berlin on 1

issued in Berlin on 1 September 1941

at the age of 83 or 84 and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Freedom

a studio portrait of a NCO with his wife

the finger was not healing properly

circumscribed by inscription “UCZESTNIKOM WALK W OBRONIE WŁADZY LUDOWEJ” (“PARTICIPANTS OF THE STRUGGLES IN DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLES’ POWER”)

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Early Fire Brigade Belt Buckle Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic issued in Berlin on 1(Feuerwehr Koppelschlo). Constructed nickel silver with brass, the obverse overlaid by a central medallion bearing a raised firemans helmet, overlaying a crossed axe and pick, circumscribed by an inscription of GOTT ZUR EHR DEN NCHSTEN ZUR WEHR (TO GODS GLORY TO THE DEFENCE OF OUR NEIGHBOURS), the reverse with claws emanating from a functional roller, unmarked, measuring 62 mm (w) x 48 mm (h), an early Third Reich period example produced c. 1934, in