Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist Imperial Fighter’s League Odenkirchen District Funeral Sash Archive measuring 32 mm (w) x

measuring 32 mm (w) x 340 mm (l)

Footnote: Edward John Finnerty was born in Montreal in 1894 and was working as a Material Clerk prior to enlisting in the CEF in May 1915

worn with soiling

date marked "E" (1940) and engraved "1941" on the reverse

hollow construction

Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist Imperial Fighter’s League Odenkirchen District Funeral Sash Archive measuring 32 mm (w) x(Nationalsozialistischer Reichskriegerbund Begrbnis Schrpe). Constructed of red rayon, with each end culminating in a gold bullion wire fringe, the obverse of one end affixed with a white rayon disc bearing a dyed National Socialist Imperial Fighters League (NSRKB) insignia, topped by a silvered inscription of DEUTSCHES REICHS KRIEGERBUND MILITRVERBAND ODENKIRCHEN, the opposite end affixed with a white rayon disc bearing a dyed black mobile swastika,