From September to mid October the regiment defended a bridgehead at the Zapadnaya Litsa river during the ultimately failed attempt to conquer Murmansk
The totenkopf badges appear to have never been removed and are original to this cap
Sickness caught up to Erwin again
Khaki College (later Khaki University) was a Canadian educational institution set up and managed by the general staff of the Canadian Army in Britain from 1917-1919 during the First World War
measuring 35 mm (w) x 115 mm (h)
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Gravity Knife By Paul Weyersberg United Republic of From September to mid October(Luftwaffe Fallschirmjger Messer). A Luftwaffe paratrooper knife using a sliding steel blade inside a metal grip fitted with walnut, the grain running through vertically, grip plates. The blade is a relatively blunt spear point with a flat ground profile, tapering to a utility edge, measuring 100 mm, marked with Reichsbetriebsnummer RB Nr. 0 0561 0020 indicating manufacture by the firm of Paul Weyersberg in Solingen. The throat has an arrow marking,