A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Hold the 95th Battery

the 95th Battery

proceeding to join the unit for conducting drafts for the front on the next day

and John Walkes Esquire Member for Middlesex 1773

page 935: "William Birchall Macaulay King

A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Hold the 95th BatteryA textbook example of a pre war manufacture (RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst National Labour Service) field cap; constructed of olive green wool and two rows of contrasting off white stitching along the side panels. The front center of the field cap features a single insignia consisting of an early machine woven logo of the RAD, consisting of a white and red shoved with a mobile black swastika in the centre and two outward facing wheat stalks at a 45 degree