Germany, SS. A Rare Kommandobuch to SS-Untersturmführer Heinz Schmeling, Sonderkommando R certificate_of_authenticity the exterior bearing an inscription

the exterior bearing an inscription of “MEDAILLE ‘WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42’ (OSTMEDAILLE)” and a maker’s mark of “GUSTAV BREHMER

the twelve o’clock arm topped by an integral loop connecting a silver crown suspension

Footnote: The 86th Infantry Battalion "86th Machine Gun Battalion" was raised in Southern Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Hamilton

Cap Badge: in blackened bronze with red enamels

The front is completed by a vertical row of five olive green metal buttons on the right side

Germany, SS. A Rare Kommandobuch to SS-Untersturmführer Heinz Schmeling, Sonderkommando R certificate_of_authenticity the exterior bearing an inscription(SS Kommandobuch). A rare and well preserved SS issue Kommandobuch, constructed of a card stock binding with 28 paginated interior pages, lightly filled with handwritten entries, named to HEINZ SCHMELING, a native of Berlin who was born on 24 January 1913 in Berlin, and who held the rank of SS Untersturmfhrer at the time of issue, featuring entries for pay dated 20 March 1942 through to 6 January 1943, certified by the handwritten signature of an