A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Hold He volunteered for the Waffen-SS

He volunteered for the Waffen-SS on October 8th

proceeding to join the unit for conducting drafts for the front on the next day

the 95th Battery

and John Walkes Esquire Member for Middlesex 1773

page 935: "William Birchall Macaulay King

A Pre-Second War Manufacture Rad (National Labour Service) Overseas Cap Hold He volunteered for the Waffen-SSA textbook example of a pre war manufacture (RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst National Labour Service) field cap; constructed of olive green wool and two rows of contrasting off white stitching along the side panels. The front center of the field cap features a single insignia consisting of an early machine woven logo of the RAD, consisting of a white and red shoved with a mobile black swastika in the centre and two outward facing wheat stalks at a 45 degree