A Second War Landwacht Police Auxiliary Cap Badge GTRexclude WWI Niagara Camp Sweetheart Pin

WWI Niagara Camp Sweetheart Pin - Silver gilt and multi-coloured enamels

The Battalion served in France and Belgium with the 9th Infantry Brigade

There are multiple numeric stampings in black ink on the inside right breast

from February 19th to the 28th

A Second War Landwacht Police Auxiliary Cap Badge GTRexclude WWI Niagara Camp Sweetheart PinA Landwacht Polizei badge; in stamped silvered zinc; horizontal pin; unmarked; measuring 46 mm x 52 mm; near very fine condition. Footnote: In January 1942 Reichsfhrer SS Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Inneren, (Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior), established the Landwacht, to be utilized in guarding the prisoners of war within the borders of the Greater German