Germany, Freikorps. A Schlageter Shield, Second Pattern for Combatants, by Paul Küst Newly Listed and his magnum opus

and his magnum opus

then posted to the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp on December 4

the report laminated in plastic on both sides

Colonel -  in gilded bullion wire on red wool base

Germany, Freikorps. A Schlageter Shield, Second Pattern for Combatants, by Paul Küst Newly Listed and his magnum opus(Schlageterschild, II. Form fr Kmpfer). Instituted 26 May 1933 by the Schlageter Gedchtnis Bund. (1933 1936 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, surrounding a central Latin Cross, flanked by campaign clasps reading SPARTAKUS 1919 23, emanating from an inscription of SCHLAGETER, in turn situated above a pair of crossed swords, the reverse with