An Auxuliary Polizei Nco's Shako By F.a. Assmann Auction having been transferred to the

having been transferred to the 76th Infantry Battalion

plus six months

With great courage and devotion to duty he went out at the height of the barrage

the second indicating that Hickman was entitled to the Queen's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1902 clasp

An Auxuliary Polizei Nco's Shako By F.a. Assmann Auction having been transferred to theThis sturdy framed shako has a black leather exterior, with a circular top, straight front and domed back with protruding neck guard, in the traditional police helmet style, that was established in 1920s and lasted until 1945. The front is adorned with an aluminum Third Reich Police shako plate, illustrating a spread winged eagle sitting upon an oak leaf clustered wreath centred by a swastika insignia. Immediately above the shako plate is an oval