A Second War German Red Cross Brassard (Armband) For Volunteer Stretcher Bearers Hold TOWERS SAULT Ste

TOWERS SAULT Ste

42mm x 48mm

s fears materialized when the successful Soviet Operation Uranus

a leopard's head (made in London) and date marked with an "R" inside a shield (1892) on the reverse

1915 and comprised about 500 men from the construction forces of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company

A Second War German Red Cross Brassard (Armband) For Volunteer Stretcher Bearers Hold TOWERS SAULT SteWhite cotton with an embroidered red cross, stamped in black ink with a left facing eagle standing upon a wreathed swastika, surrounded by the inscription "Kommissar der Freiwilligen Krankenpflege" (Commissioner of Nursing Volunteers) with circular outline, 98 mm x 150 mm, the ends sewn together on the reverse, light spotting, better than very fine.