Footnote: The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a double-edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based on concepts which the two men initiated before World War II while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police in China
consisting of a blue enamelled cross with red and white borders
German Mothers Cross
leaving for his new unit on the 3rd and arriving with them in the field on the 4th
documented with a "Bullet Wound" to his left chest
Germany, Heer. A Visor Cap Eagle And Cockade Wreath certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife(Heer Mtzenabzeichen). A Heer visor cap eagle, constructed of aluminum, the reverse with both attachment prongs intact, unmarked, measuring 65 mm (w) x 28 mm (h), in extremely fine condition, and; a cockade wreath, constructed of aluminum, the reverse with all four attachment prongs intact, unmarked, measuring 64 mm (w) x 43 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.