The dagger features a 220 mm-long plated magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and semi-sharpened edges
Baring joined his Battalion in 1854 on the way to the Crimea at Malta and it was here that he was employed as a Battalion Instructor on the new weapon
from September 1927 to February 1930 and joined Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington
with white rayon lined inside cover
The belt is marked on the reverse with the RAD logo and “Gau XXVIII”
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Hold The dagger features a 220(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop