Germany, Heer. A Tropical Em/Nco’s Overseas Cap, C. 1943 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Constructed of multi-coloured machine embroidery

Constructed of multi-coloured machine embroidery on a black rayon-blended background

in action at Pretoria and at Diamond Hill in June 1900 and in operations in Transvaal in September 1900

A Cross Pattée of multi-piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed border

Both he and his wife are buried in Mound View Cemetery in Mount Vernon

Germany, Heer. A Tropical Em/Nco’s Overseas Cap, C. 1943 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Constructed of multi-coloured machine embroidery(Heer Schiffchen). An extremely well preserved Heer Tropical EM NCOs overseas cap, constructed of olive drab cotton twill. The cap is fully surrounded by fold down scalloped side panels, and is flanked on each side by a ventilation hole reinforced with a brown painted zink eyelet. Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia in the form of a light brown cotton backer bearing a machine embroidered silver grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed