Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval Hold Marguerite (born 1893) and John

Marguerite (born 1893) and John (born 1895)

He was in his mid-sixties and was the Chairman of Robert Byrom (Stalybridge) when he liquidated the company

the reverse bearing a central gilded medallion overlaid by a raised monogram of King Wilhelm I

each tassel consisting of ten 200 mm long strands of twisted yellow and white nylon cord and tied together at their mid-points via matching yellow and white nylon threading

mother and sister were alive

Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval Hold Marguerite (born 1893) and John(Heer Schulterklappen fr Mannschaften). A lot of five wartime Heer issue shoulder straps for Enlisted ranks, each constructed of field grey wool and bearing red embroidered regimental numbers, three trimmed with white piping, and one retaining a reverse paper label bearing a handwritten inscription of TAKEN AT ST. ELOI APRIL 1916 147 C. E. (corresponding to the Battle of the St. Eloi Craters, in which the 2nd Canadian Division was heavily engaged), of