Pocket Watch
- Thread starter bgcameron
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Stahlhelm (steel helmet) the German Veterans association after WW I, This could be "Steel helmet youth"
The pocket watch is Canadian government issue..(Likely WW II)
VunB der Bund der Frontsoldaten; Federation of combat Veterans- The equivalent of our Legion.
The pocket watch is Canadian government issue..(Likely WW II)
VunB der Bund der Frontsoldaten; Federation of combat Veterans- The equivalent of our Legion.
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- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
The pocket watch is the type issued by the Cdn government for use with the #19 radio set during WW2. It was held in a bakelite holder on the front of the radio set. The watch is very similar the the British GSTP (general service time piece) issued to soldiers in WW1 and in WW2. The GSTP had a black face as opposed to the #19 set watch with white.
Just to clear up any questions about the buttons, they are there to represent our side of the story. The JUNGSTAHLHELM pin serves ample for the "other side".
JUNGSTAHLHELM was the youth auxiliary of the Stahlhelm and was sponsored by the veterans' organisation, much as many of our Cadet Corps are sponsored by local Legions.
Canada's first veterans' organisation was the Great War Veterans, founded in 1917. By 1925 there were 15 veterans' groups in Canada. At the urging of Field-Marshal Haig, most of them amalgamated in 1925 and the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Sevice League was founded late in that year. The only veterans' organisations which did not join the new BESL were the ANV (Army and Navy Veterans, now known as the ANAF: Army, Navy, Air Force Veterans) and the Kinsmen, both of which continue to this day as community-service groups, although the Kinsmen are no longer a veterans' group owing to terms in their own constitution.
The badges are (top) a pair of Canadian officer's shoulder-flashes from the CEF. Below are a War-time button from the Army and Navy Veterans' Fund Appeal to Aid Wives and Children of Reservists. To the right is a Great War Veterans' Asociation badge from the 1925 Winnipeg Convention at which the group voted itself out of existence to form the Legion of today.
The little crowned badge in the middle is a very early Great War Veterans' badge, before the final "A" for "Association" was fully used. Below it are (left) an early Army and Navy Veterans' badge and another from a different group, the Comrades of the Great War. A bottom is a small Canadian War-time "Beaver" button.
They rather do belong in this thread, one would think.
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JUNGSTAHLHELM was the youth auxiliary of the Stahlhelm and was sponsored by the veterans' organisation, much as many of our Cadet Corps are sponsored by local Legions.
Canada's first veterans' organisation was the Great War Veterans, founded in 1917. By 1925 there were 15 veterans' groups in Canada. At the urging of Field-Marshal Haig, most of them amalgamated in 1925 and the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Sevice League was founded late in that year. The only veterans' organisations which did not join the new BESL were the ANV (Army and Navy Veterans, now known as the ANAF: Army, Navy, Air Force Veterans) and the Kinsmen, both of which continue to this day as community-service groups, although the Kinsmen are no longer a veterans' group owing to terms in their own constitution.
The badges are (top) a pair of Canadian officer's shoulder-flashes from the CEF. Below are a War-time button from the Army and Navy Veterans' Fund Appeal to Aid Wives and Children of Reservists. To the right is a Great War Veterans' Asociation badge from the 1925 Winnipeg Convention at which the group voted itself out of existence to form the Legion of today.
The little crowned badge in the middle is a very early Great War Veterans' badge, before the final "A" for "Association" was fully used. Below it are (left) an early Army and Navy Veterans' badge and another from a different group, the Comrades of the Great War. A bottom is a small Canadian War-time "Beaver" button.
They rather do belong in this thread, one would think.
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There were lots of different type pocket watches made for the Services. I have a G.S.T.P. one made by Omega. I did manage to "Google" a website where I got the information by using the serial number of the watch. Mine was issued to Southern Ontario.
Please don't ask, as I have no idea of what the Website was, and this was several years ago.
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There were lots of different type pocket watches made for the Services. I have a G.S.T.P. one made by Omega. I did manage to "Google" a website where I got the information by using the serial number of the watch. Mine was issued to Southern Ontario.
Please don't ask, as I have no idea of what the Website was, and this was several years ago.
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