Germany, RAD. An Officer’s Cloth Cap Auction bearing a machine-embroidered orange insignia

bearing a machine-embroidered orange insignia

a significant number of Camels belonging to the squadron were destroyed by the Royal Air Force

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

as well as between the Moselle and Rhine rivers in January of 1940

32 mm x 870 mm

Germany, RAD. An Officer’s Cloth Cap Auction bearing a machine-embroidered orange insignia(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