Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Republic of A certificate for 25 years

A certificate for 25 years of service to Verwaltungsinspektor (administrative inspector) Hörmann from the director of the Bavarian main pension office

Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment

Stitched onto the chest is an insignia consisting of a white cotton backer bearing a machine-embroidered blue Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

issued in the field on 29 January 1944

also measuring 32 mm (w) x 42 mm (h)

Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Republic of A certificate for 25 years(rmelschild der lettischen Freiwilligen der Waffen SS). Of multi piece construction, consisting of an off white cotton twill base, overlaid on the obverse by a layer of maroon cotton till, defaced by a diagonal off white tresse in representation of a Latvian national emblem, topped by a black bar bearing a printed white inscription of LATVIJA, unmarked, measuring 48 mm (w) x 68 mm (h), a scarce domestically produced variant in uniform removed and