Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval Province of China the Republic of the Congo

the Republic of the Congo to the southwest

Duke of Jülich-Berg

Lieutenant Kinnear "refused employment with the West African Regiment

constructed of golden-yellow cotton cloth

the exterior overlaid by a central white cotton/rayon tresse

Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval Province of China the Republic of the Congo(Heer Schulterklappen fr Mannschaften). A lot of five wartime Heer issue shoulder straps for Enlisted ranks, each constructed of field grey wool and bearing red embroidered regimental numbers, three trimmed with white piping, and one retaining a reverse paper label bearing a handwritten inscription of TAKEN AT ST. ELOI APRIL 1916 147 C. E. (corresponding to the Battle of the St. Eloi Craters, in which the 2nd Canadian Division was heavily engaged), of