Germany, HJ. A Leader’s Belt Buckle, by Eugen Schmidhäussler GTRexclude Distinguished Service Cross

Distinguished Service Cross

later achieving the ranks of Acting Gunner and Gunner on January 1

measuring 70 mm (w) x 754 mm (h))

Constructed of a dark brown wool base with buckram core and woven silver wire trim

Private First Class Austin unhesitatingly left the relative security of his fighting hole and

Germany, HJ. A Leader’s Belt Buckle, by Eugen Schmidhäussler GTRexclude Distinguished Service Cross(HJ Feldbindenschlo fr Fhrer). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching an HJ insignia, situated within a ribbed ring bearing an inscription of BLUT UND EHRE (BLOOD AND HONOUR), the reverse with a clip and loop retaining attachment claws on a functional roller, marked with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and maker code M4 119 for Eugen Schmidhussler, Pforzheim, measuring 50 mm in diameter, a