Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Schield Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic promoting him from Regierungsoberinspektor/Top-Tier Government

promoting him from Regierungsoberinspektor/Top-Tier Government Inspector to Regierungsamtmann/Government Official

each clip with pebbled uppers

By the 1920s

each resembling four flames

The Lieutenant-Colonel

Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Schield Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic promoting him from Regierungsoberinspektor/Top-Tier Government(Heer rmelschild Demjansk). Constructed of stamped magnetic sheet metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a pair of crossed swords overlaying a plane and situated above a date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK and dual log pillboxes flanking a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with field grey wool liner (indicating Heer issue)