Germany, SS. A 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland EM/NCO’s Cuff Title United Republic of and pinned with silvered bronze

and pinned with silvered bronze numerals “5” with rank pips of identical construction

Nouveau Dictionnaire des Ordes de Chevalerie: Créés Chez les Différents Peuples Depuis les Premiers Siècles Jusqu'a Nos Jours (A New Dictionary of Orders of Chivalry

Baker was mustered out as a Sergeant and was in that rank when the United States entered the First World War

the obverse consisting of a cross pattee

Germany, SS. A 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland EM/NCO’s Cuff Title United Republic of and pinned with silvered bronze(Waffen SS rmelband fr Mannschaften der 23. SS Freiw. Panzer Gren. Div. Nederland). Constructed of ribbed black rayon, the exterior trimmed along both the top and bottom edges with machine embroidered silver grey tresses, bearing a central machine embroidered silver grey inscription of NEDERLAND in Latin script, unmarked, measuring 32 mm (w) x 415 mm (l), in near mint condition.