Simple little add here. This is a metal, bakelite and cloth roundel or cockade in the national colours used on enlisted men’s soft caps in all three services. In this case the KM Donald Duck cap below was missing one when I got it, although it had the slots where one would have fitted. An easy cheap fix, unlike most of the rabbit holes I go down.
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Kreigsmarine EM cockade
Posted in Headwear with tags Cap Badges, Germany (Third Reich), Kriegsmarine, WW2 on January 15, 2017 by The DudeKreigsmarine EM/NCO Donald Duck Cap
Posted in Headwear with tags Germany (Third Reich), Kriegsmarine, WW2 on January 7, 2017 by The DudeI have field caps for the Luftwaffe and Heer and have been looking for a KM one for a while. This one came relatively cheap from a trip to Belleville although it is missing its cockade on the front. I will look for one of these in the meantime but I am happy with the look of this. Note, the post-war hats are almost identical except that the inside liner is white in colour.
Ottoman Turkish Enlisted Man’s Buckle
Posted in Belts & Belt Buckles with tags Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, WW1 on September 3, 2016 by The DudeBeing a Kiwi I have an attachment to the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. When I visited Turkey in 2012 I made sure that I got to Anzac Cove and Chunik Bair. I scooped a little bit of soil from there into a container and dragged that home. Elsewhere here I have an Ottoman award and have been looking for an Ottoman era belt buckle for a while. This one has the toghra (personal cypher) of Mehmet V, the penultimate Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, under the national emblem. Notice how similar this buckle is in design to the Jerry ones. The Germans had both feet in the Turkish Army prior to the Great War, providing technical advice and equipment designs.

Turkish soldiers at Sedd el Barr in 1915, prior to the invasion
Infantry Pickelhaube Field Cover
Posted in Headwear with tags Germany (Imperial), Heer, Prussia, WW1 on June 6, 2014 by The DudeI have had my Prussian Infantry Pickelhaube for about 10 years and in all that time have only see two of the cloth field covers for them. This one was just last week and I snapped it up now that I know how rare they are. In the photos you can see it still has its fastenings intact. You can also see that I had it on backwards. Ha.