Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger, By Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie GTRexclude He signed his Attestation Paper

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (710012) with the 104th Infantry Battalion

four of the diagrams accented in red ink

Medal of the Volunteer 1940-1945

with seven vertically-placed black plastic buttons on the outer leg

Footnote: George Routladge was born in Yorkshire England in 1883 and worked as a waiter in Toronto before enlsiting in January 1916

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger, By Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie GTRexclude He signed his Attestation Paper(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offizier mit Gehnge). A well preserved Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 42. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. The blade is plain with the exceptions of a makers mark on the reverse ricasso in the form of the logo of Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie, Solingen. It sits securely within a silvered alloy crossguard,