An Unidentified Steel Buckle; Published Example Auction letter from his sister (Lydia)

letter from his sister (Lydia) to DND Ottawa (requesting information in regards to his gravestone) and three newspaper articles from the New Kensington Daily Dispatch (reporting on his death

Black celluloid grip exhibits multiple contact marks and has experienced a crack on the same side as the SS runes exhibited on the ricasso

that his profession was "Boer" and that he was Single

the Torpedo School Ship in Portsmouth

An Unidentified Steel Buckle; Published Example Auction letter from his sister (Lydia)Buckle in die pressed steel, magnetic, with matte aluminum paint finish, 63mm x47mm, high raised and very well detailed center face plate, affixed to plain field by four prongs, unmarked; in mint condition. Probably a pattern trial piece, most likely mid War production. Illustrated on page 587 of Angolias book; and extremely are pattern buckle. Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start