Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Set Of Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) General's Shoulder Boards Hold taking employment as a workman

taking employment as a workman in the brickyard of Thomas Irwin in the summers and as a textile operative in the textile mills of Thomas Drake and Caleb Milne in the winters

He was posted to the Canadian Infantry Base Depot on the 23rd

1914 in Kleinensee near Hersfeld

maker marked "VAUGHTONS Ltd BIRMINGHAM" on the reverse

in gilt bronze and red

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Set Of Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) General's Shoulder Boards Hold taking employment as a workman(Ordnungspolizei Schulterklappen). Constructed of a green wool base bearing two rows of gold bullion wire thread in an interwoven braided pattern, with a single row of silver aluminum bullion wire in a chevron formation, both ending in a loop meeting a pebbled, gilded magnetic metal button, unmarked, measuring 37 mm (w) x 103. 5 mm (l), in extremely fine condition.