Germany, Schutzpolizei. A Schutzpolizei Em/Nco’s By Overhoff & Cie Hold " Corporal Brookes was manning

" Corporal Brookes was manning one of the front line trenches

War Merit Cross First Class

(Ehrenkreuze des Weltkriegs 1914/1918)

Commander (1904)

Germany, Schutzpolizei. A Schutzpolizei Em/Nco’s By Overhoff & Cie Hold " Corporal Brookes was manning(Schutzpolizei Grtel mit Schnalle). A Schutzpolizei belt and buckle, the former constructed of blackened leather, one end with an integrated aluminum clip, the other end with a reverse leather tongue bearing seven pairs of dual loops, with an illegible stamped makers mark, measuring 44 mm (w) x 985 mm (l), accompanied by a buckle constructed of cast aluminum, the obverse with a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of GOTT