Germany, State Forestry Service. A Hesse/Baden Forestry Service Official’s Service Belt GTRexclude with sewn on white disc

with sewn on white disc on top

He was struck off strength as being "medically unfit" and discharged at Winnipeg on April 24

with its period original full-length non-combatant’s ribbon

however he was not yet drafted

maker marked “JFS” for “Josef Feix & Söhne

Germany, State Forestry Service. A Hesse/Baden Forestry Service Official’s Service Belt GTRexclude with sewn on white disc(Hesse Baden Frster Koppelschloss und Grtel). Constructed of gilt bronze, the obverse depicting a national eagle with open wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons on a raised pebbled dome, surrounded by a full oak wreath tied together at the base of the belt buckle, the reverse hollow, with a soldered catch and a standard double claw spring bar assembly, unmarked, measuring 49. 90 mm in diameter. The belt is fabricated of thick