An Auxuliary Polizei Nco's Shako By F.a. Assmann Auction With great courage and devotion

With great courage and devotion to duty he went out at the height of the barrage

He left behind his father

having been transferred to the 76th Infantry Battalion

WILLIAMS Corporal Rl

inscribed spear hanger missing its pinback

An Auxuliary Polizei Nco's Shako By F.a. Assmann Auction With great courage and devotionThis sturdy framed shako has a black leather exterior, with a circular top, straight front and domed back with protruding neck guard, in the traditional police helmet style, that was established in 1920s and lasted until 1945. The front is adorned with an aluminum Third Reich Police shako plate, illustrating a spread winged eagle sitting upon an oak leaf clustered wreath centred by a swastika insignia. Immediately above the shako plate is an oval