Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Gendarmerie Officer’s Parade Bandolier and Ammunition Cartouche GTRexclude WPA ART PROJ

WPA ART PROJ

The sleeves have vented button down cuffs

each bearing four bands of rolled silver aluminum wire and pinned with a silvered bronze rank pip and number “28”

the exterior lid presenting a silver plaque engraved with recipient's name JOSE ANTONIO GIRON

This would explain Karl Lange’s young appearance and his late battle deployment

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Gendarmerie Officer’s Parade Bandolier and Ammunition Cartouche GTRexclude WPA ART PROJ(Paradebandelier und Kartuschkasten fr Offiziere der Gendarmerie). A rare Gendarmerie Officers parade bandolier and ammo cartouche, the former constructed of a police green wool base with a reinforced canvas core, overlaid across the length of the obverse with a silver aluminum wire tresse which encompasses its full width, terminating at one end in a pebbled aluminum clip adjusted with a functional pebbled oval aluminum buckle, unmarked, measuring 5