A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Hold and John Walkes Esquire Member

and John Walkes Esquire Member for Middlesex 1773

a "7" above plus a "1" and "8" below

He volunteered for the Waffen-SS on October 8th

center plate intact (magnetic)

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

A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Hold and John Walkes Esquire MemberA 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