A Third Reich Baden Fire Service Officer's Belt Buckle Buy Now Argyll on January 30

Argyll on January 30

and exhibit nice bright colors

when he was Killed in Action on the first day of the Battle of Flers-Courceletteat

1915 and proceeded to France with the 5th Infantry Battalion "Western Canadian Cavalry"

with two narrow brown leather straps and two buckles creating the chin strap

A Third Reich Baden Fire Service Officer's Belt Buckle Buy Now Argyll on January 30In cast brass, unmarked reverse, measuring 48. 5 mm, worn, very fine. Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolias book Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, published in 2001.