Austria, Empire. A Marksmanship Performance Badge Of The Kuk Artillery For First Gunners GTRexclude Following Germany’s defeat

Following Germany’s defeat

The inside comes complete with its original nine-panel black-finished leather liner

Kraas holds the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer and is the regiment commander of the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 2 “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler”

in which he embodied the aforementioned quotations from a letter written to him by Colonel Roosevelt

on loop for suspension - marked “MEH” (an unknown maker)

Austria, Empire. A Marksmanship Performance Badge Of The Kuk Artillery For First Gunners GTRexclude Following Germany’s defeatIn bronzed tombac, illustrating crossed cannons backed by a target and surmounted by the Austrian crown, all within an open ended wreath of laurel leaves, measuring 45. 7 mm in diameter, intact clip, scattered bronzing wear on the obverse, surface rust on the reverse, very fine. Footnote: This was instituted in 1888 by Kaiser Franz Joseph, while in 1913 a similar badge, with the Hungarian crown, was adopted for the Hungarian Artillery.