Germany, Heer. A Signals Personnel Unteroffizier’s Summer Field Blouse Newly Listed Footnote: The Star for Years

Footnote: The Star for Years of Service was presumably instituted in 1916 as a military decoration for length of meritorious service

The scabbard is constructed of thick and stiff black leather

combating Partisans

See footnote for more information about R230

From there it slowly retreated to the Ukraine

Germany, Heer. A Signals Personnel Unteroffizier’s Summer Field Blouse Newly Listed Footnote: The Star for Years(Feldbluse fr Unteroffizier der Nachrichtentruppe). A well preserved Heer Signals Personnel Unteroffiziers summer field blouse, constructed of a khaki tan cotton blended cloth. It features a turned down collar lined on the exterior with a smooth dark green wool, reinforced on the reverse with machine stitched darts. The collar is trimmed with a silver aluminum wire tresse, and flanked by tabs bearing dual machine embroidered silver grey insignia