GERMAN WEHRMACHT HEER NCO UNTERFELDWEBEL SHOULDER BOARDS FOR CALVARY

WW2 German shoulder boards for NCO Unterfeldwebel rank.  Made of field grey wool and aluminum-silver tresse.  Has golden yellow piping for Calvary.  Unterfeldwebel ( 'Junior Sergeant') was a rank of the Wehrmacht, from 1935 until 1945.

Unterfeldwebel NCO shoulder boards were introduced in 1938. They indicated the rank and service branch of the wearer.

Has button hole for uniform attachment and black wool strap

The rank tresse is the early shiny silver ones. 

Rank tresse was sewn onto the edges of the shoulder boards.  The early war tresse was originally shiny silver aluminum probably due to the ease of seeing this bright silver tresse the Germans quickly introduced the subdued tresse instead.   

After 1940 both silver and the subdued tresse was worn on the shoulder boards.

Check out our other shoulder boards of different ranks in all services with different piping Waffenfarbe colours in stock.

The 1st Cavalry Division (German: 1. Kavallerie-Division) was formed in October 1939. Fighting in the Netherlands and France from May, 1940 to June, 1941 and in the Eastern front, southern sector from June, 1941 to November, 1941.  it was officially transformed into the 24th Panzer-Division late 1941.

Its Commander from inception to transformation was General der Kavallerie Kurt Feldt.