A shoulder board slip-on identifies him as part of SS Grenadier Regiment “Westland”
2nd South African Division
Footnote: The Ante Pavelic Medal for Bravery was instituted on December 27
inscribed "MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR"
dated 30 April 1943
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Cloth Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A shoulder board slip-on identifies(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of a padded dark grey wool base, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered, silver grey, oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a diving golden yellow Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a fully intact black paper liner, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 59 mm (h), demonstrating some fatigue or mothing to the edge of