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Description: Up for sale this slightly worn SS sleeve eagle in bullion and with the cardboard underneath like they should.
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I found this in an antique store in Kalama, WA yesterday for $60. I’m guessing that it was a ‘bring back’ by a doughboy to the Fort Lewis area during the war. I can’t really make out the stamp on the bag, but the gasmask appears to have been partly made by Dunlop Rubber Company, Limited. Does anybody know what the small square tag on the string is for?
I do not speak English, I use a translator
Think you for this dagger RZM 1211/39?
I have no picture piece/piece
Thank you
This is one of the last awards I have had tucked away for many years before finding WRF.
I have always been on the fence on this one as to originality, leaning towards a fake.
Unmarked, vertical pin, Zinc construction weighing in at around 22 grams
I have not found an example on this forum to match but pictures have been shown to a well respected collector / dealer who gave it a tentative thumbs up as a late war (potentially Schwerin) award
So what are everyone’s thoughts?
Michael
Harry Vickers #5064 was an old contemptible who went to France with 1/RWF, on the 6th October 1914.
If anyone knows the history of this part of the great war, it was the time of the pivotal period when the Germans were advancing and sweeping all before them along the Menin road in the area of Ypres.
In a desperate attempt to stop them or at least slow them down, 1/RWF were part of the 22nd brigade 7th Division who had after landing at Zeebrugge on the morning of the 7th October moved by train to Bruges to take part in the Race to the Sea.
On the 19th October, the First Battle of Ypres started with the battle of Langemarck, followed by the Battle of Gheluvet which commenced on the 28th October, during which the battalion was in the front line trying to hold an almost impossible position with little cover and facing vastly superior enemy forces with the inevitable result.
On the 30th the battalion was overrun with the loss of 10 officers and 320 NCO’s & men missing, of these only 4 officers and fifty men were found to have been taken prisoner, all of whom are recorded as having been wounded, the remaining 275 were killed.
During the period in question from their landing in Belgium on the 7th October to their near annihilation on the 30th October, 1/RWF lost 1260 out of their original strength of 1350 leaving them only 90 officers and men.
Harry Vickers was one of those lucky 50 OR’s who was taken prisoner and he saw out the war at Chemnitz and probably other POW camps, as sadly his red cross records do not list his camps.
The card is the receipt to prove he received a Red Cross parcel and was happy with it and the bread etc…. he was sent.
The card is addressed to the Rhyl POW Fund, C/O Rhyl, Rhyl Town Hall Chambers, Rhyl. The card has three dates on it, Aug 1918 as to when the parcel was accepted, Ovt 1918 when the card was sent and Nov 1918 for when it arrived.
As an old contemptible he was awarded a 1914 Mon Star trio and clasp, though all I have is this Red Cross parcel card, but it still opens that door to his history and in its own way is kinda cool and historic IMO.
