to protect men eligible for military service but engaged in essential war work from being accosted by young women in the street who would hand them white feathers and accuse them of being slackers
but there are some stains on the reverse of the cufftitle
marked RZM M5/8 on both catches on gorget
1880's King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) Officer's Pill Box Cap - Exterior in black wool with a 39 mm scarlet red wool band running around the circumference
Italy, Kingdom. A Medal For The Liberation Of Dalmatia 1941 United Republic of to protect men eligible forIn silvered bronze, obverse illustrating a standing helmeted Italian soldier, astride a map of the Adriatic with the soldier planting a standard in Dalmatia, a fasces at the left, the winged lion of St. Mark between the fasces and the soldier, a tablet in the lion's right paw inscribed "PAX TIBI MARCE EVANGELISTA MEUS" (Peace unto you, Mark, my evangelist), engraver marked "AFFER" (Costantino Affer, 1906 1987), reverse illustrating a winged Victory