An Unusual Aluminum Self Securing Belt Loop By Schmölle & Co., Menden certificate_of_authenticity original ribbon with embroidered cedar

original ribbon with embroidered cedar tree insignia

Newis was wounded in action at the Battle of the Ancre Heights

marked "9" and "

Dachau made

He was with the 76th Battalion when he was Killed in Action on October 25

An Unusual Aluminum Self Securing Belt Loop By Schmölle & Co., Menden certificate_of_authenticity original ribbon with embroidered cedarAluminum, 21 mm x 64. 5 mm u shaped bracket with die holes at either end, a flap with projecting points affixed on its ends and fitted into the die holes on the bracket, maker marked Schmlle & Co., Menden insignia on the reverse of the flap, one end of the bracket folded over and housing a trapezoid shaped ring, light contact, near extremely fine.