Germany, Sa. A National Socialist Equestrian Youth Honour Plaque Hold Also concealed within the book

Also concealed within the book is a small cut-off paper indicating that Schmid was called up for active Wehrmacht service effective 5 February 1941

Brown officially signed on for World War I service on November 5

plus two miniatures

he immediately enlisted

Germany, Sa. A National Socialist Equestrian Youth Honour Plaque Hold Also concealed within the book(Ehrenplakette der NS Reiterjugend). Constructed of blackened magnetic iron, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom of the obverse by a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika and on the reverse by a Sturmabteilung (SA) insignia, the obverse bearing a raised horse, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DIE WEHRHAFTE ERTCHTIGUNG DER DEUTSCHEN REITERJUGEND (FOR MERIT