A Rad General Officer's Brocade Dress Belt With Buckle By Overhoff & Cie; Published Newly Listed and two-up Eagle Sleeve Insignias

and two-up Eagle Sleeve Insignias (light blue embroidery on black wool

was declared "Dangerously Ill" on May 3rd

A Possibly Unique Signed Portrait of Col

Smeeton was an Aide to Rear Admiral (Engineer) Simpson until his second and final retirement in 1948

A Rad General Officer's Brocade Dress Belt With Buckle By Overhoff & Cie; Published Newly Listed and two-up Eagle Sleeve Insignias(Reichsarbeitsdienst = RAD): Fire gilt aluminum buckle on the right end, marked "GES. GESCH" (Gesetzlich Geschtzt), maker marked with the "OLC" (Overhoff & Cie, Ludenscheid) insignia and marked "36" (1936) on the reverse, illustrating the RAD upward facing shovel insignia surrounded by a wreath of wheat sheaves, the buckle measuring 48. 5 mm. Brocade dress belt in fine aluminum wire with three rows of brown embroidery on the upper, interlaced with