Germany, SS. A Sicherheitsdienst Sleeve Diamond for Enlisted Ranks Auction Landed in a rice paddy

Landed in a rice paddy

the battery was absorbed into the 2nd Canadian Motor Machine Gun Battery as B Battery

each with the Royal Artillery insignia

black-and-white photographs of soldiers in a mountain village

Germany, SS. A Sicherheitsdienst Sleeve Diamond for Enlisted Ranks Auction Landed in a rice paddy(Sicherheitsdienst rmelraute fr Mannschaften). Constructed of black wool, the obverse bearing machine embroidered silver grey initials SD (Sicherheitsdienst), unmarked, measuring 48 mm (w) x 70 mm (h), demonstrating the remnants of a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label which has been lost to time, in extremely fine condition.