GERMAN WWII MOUNTAIN TROOP OFFICERS UNIFORM, IDENTIFIED.

The 4 pocket officers tunic, officers bergmutze and soldbuch belonging to Obergefreiter then Leutnant Johann Nowak, the tunic being the standard M.36 officers tunic in enlisted ranks quality, standard 4 pocket construction all with pleats and flaps, dark green collar that has some slight moth damage to the nap, fitted with a set of slip-on mountain green underlay Leutnants shoulder boards with silvered regimental 98 numerals attached, the silver lace to the boards in subdued wartime grey. The collar patches are of standard bullion type with mountain green centre. Officer bullion wire woven breast eagle hand stitched to the tunic. One East Front medal ribbon. Iron Cross 2nd class ribbon to the second buttonhole. The tunic is fitted with his original Infantry Assault Badge in silver and DRL sports badge in bronze. To the right hand sleeve the enlisted ranks Bevo woven edelweiss sleeve badge. The bergmutze again in enlisted mans quality, nap thin to the cloth, silver officers cording to crown, an officers Bevo woven T shaped eagle and cockade. To the interior the leather sweatband in the forehead area, wear use to the rayon lining, clearly stamped size 57 with a maker’s mark from Heidelberg, all metal edelweiss badge attached to the left hand side of the cap as the cap is worn. With the uniform is his original soldbuch, pass photograph wearing civil dress, pen signed across his photograph, originally issued when was an Obergefreiter, promoted to Leutnant 1.12.44, page 2 shows him being member of the 11th Company Gebirgsjager Regiment 98, many identical unit entries on page 4, pages 12 and 13 showing hospitalisation, it would appear on the 30th April 45 he remained in hospital, page 22 shows the award of the Infantry Assault Badge, the Iron Cross 2nd class and the East Front Medal, the Infantry Assault Badge was on the 11/41, the Iron Cross 6/42, the East Front Medal 11/42. Accompanying the soldbuch are a spare set of stitch-in Gebirgsjager Leutnants shoulder boards and a single shoulder board when he was a rank of Feldwebel, slip-on with the regimental numerals 98 attached, some light moth. This uniform was originally on our web site in 2021 and was reserved by a potential buyer a lay away customer, deposits were paid and a lay away was never completed and therefore the uniform is being re-offered.

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