China, Republic. A Kuomintang Army Officer’s Service Cap Auction Archive the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered grey Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

is listed in the published roll as having served in the Waterloo Campaign

An excellent example in fire gilded tombac

(gun shot wound) scar right chest at level of (the) 3rd rib sternal end

reverse with date of 1918 II

China, Republic. A Kuomintang Army Officer’s Service Cap Auction Archive the obverse bearing a machine-embroideredA wartime Kuomintang (also referred to as Guomindang or Nationalist Party of China) Army Officers service cap, constructed entirely of khaki coloured woven cotton with a raised peak. The cap consists of a crown that features a supportive spring loaded wire ring that gives the crown its distinctive shape and traditional raised peak, with a cap band directly below. The cap band itself is constructed of coarsely woven, ribbed, khaki coloured cotton.