Germany, RAD. An Officer’s Cloth Cap Auction the panels are rolled up

the panels are rolled up and secured in place at the front by a single pebbled and grey-painted zink button which emanates from the right flap and meets a reinforced buttonhole on the left flap

There were 530 medals awarded

Major Manning would serve for seven months with 57 Canadian Signals Unit

1918 at the age of 23 and is buried in the Wancourt British Cemetery

32 mm x 870 mm

Germany, RAD. An Officer’s Cloth Cap Auction the panels are rolled up(Reichsarbeitsdienst Tuchmtze). An extremely well preserved Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) Tuchmtze (cloth vap), constructed of olive drab whipcord wool. The cap is surrounded by side panels which gently slope downward near the front. A length of silver aluminum wire piping trims the top edge of the panels, which fold back to reveal an olive drab rayon underlay. A grey brown wool cap band is embroidered to the front, and is pinned with