Serbia, Chetnik. A Cap Insignia Republic of Gunner HANSON (sic)

Gunner HANSON (sic)

under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bingham McPhee with a strength of 19 officers and 549 other ranks

A rare and exceptionally well-preserved insignia for a Luftwaffe General’s cape

and Hessen Fire Brigade Honour Cross (two-piece construction

oxidation on the eyelets

Serbia, Chetnik. A Cap Insignia Republic of Gunner HANSON (sic)In die stamped silvered bronze, the reverse shows two prongs, measuring 53. 3 mm (h) x 53. 1 mm (w), in very fine condition. Footnote: The Chetniks (formally, the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army) was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force in Axis occupied Yugoslavia.