A First War Mark Ii 54Th Battalion Helmet; Named To Chaplain & Published Auction The Germans had moved their

The Germans had moved their artillery forward and put three Army corps opposite the 27th and 28th divisions on the Frezenberg ridge

in blackened steel (magnetic)

He was later described as "a singer and hero" when he died fighting for the Lützow Free Corps in a skirmish with Napoleonic troops in the Rosenow Forest near Lützow

where he was discharged upon demobilization on April 2

Mertsch won the German Cross in Gold in September 1943 and would go on to be the artillery commander of  XIII SS-Armeekorps and finished the war commanding a Kampfgruppe in Czechoslovakia

A First War Mark Ii 54Th Battalion Helmet; Named To Chaplain & Published Auction The Germans had moved theirPublished in Military Antiques and Collectibles by Victor Taborika on page 207; Noted to be worn by Canadian Chaplain George Alfred McDonald; A First War Mark II 54th Infantry Battalion "Kootenay Battalion", 11th Canadian Brigade, 4th Canadian Division Helmet: Published British made, steel, non magnetic, in greenish black, red circle above a green rectangle painted on the front, the red circle representative of the 54th Infantry Battalion, the green