GERMAN WEHRMACHT HEER NCO UNTERFELDWEBEL SHOULDER BOARDS FOR GRENADIERS

WW2 German shoulder boards for NCO Unterfeldwebel rank.  Made of field grey wool and aluminum-silver tresse.  Has meadow green piping for Grenadiers.  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.

“Grenadier” is the German term for the military doctrine of mechanized infantry units in armoured forces.  Providing support for troops in armoured vehicles and carriers with squads of 6 to 8 soldiers.  This term was started in Nazi Germany in WW2.   Also called Panzergrenadier (PzG).