Germany, Heer. An Em/Nco’s Belt Buckle 1938 Archive overlaid by a leftward-facing eagle’s

overlaid by a leftward-facing eagle’s head

a silvered with red and green enamelled metal pip and a silvered metal crossed baton and sword

Footnote: This badge was issued by the Ministry of Munitions (MoM)

Acting Bombardier Wood was posthumously awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal

The lid is held closed by a similar clip and strap arrangement

Germany, Heer. An Em/Nco’s Belt Buckle 1938 Archive overlaid by a leftward-facing eagle’s(Heer Grtelschnalle). Constructed of aluminum, the obverse bearing a raised central Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, within a ribbed ring bearing a raised inscription of GOTT MIT UNS (GOD IS WITH US) and oak branches, the reverse with a loop and dual attachment prongs, retaining a short length of brown leather belt, stamped with the illegible makers mark of a Ldenscheid based manufacture and a date of 1938, measuring 62 mm