A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Newly Listed probably 1930’s

probably 1930’s

with four national eagles (Hoheitszeichen) separately applied between each of the four arms of the cross

Grave 856 and is commemorated on page 142 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance

John Grimshaw

A 1939 Gotha NSBO (Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation) Tag Gautreffen der Deutschen Arbeitsfront Gau Thüringen badge

A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Newly Listed probably 1930’sA textbook example of a pre war manufacture (RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst National Labour Service) field cap; constructed of olive green wool and two rows of contrasting off white stitching along the side panels. The front center of the field cap features a single insignia consisting of an early machine woven logo of the RAD, consisting of a white and red shoved with a mobile black swastika in the centre and two outward facing wheat stalks at a 45 degree