Original German WWI Private Purchase Bayonet Style Trench Fighting Knife by Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie Rear Sight Assembly As with the other patch

As with the other patch

Small buckles were provided to adjust the suspension

the Crimean War

Gilbert and identifying him as a member of the 50th Parachute Infantry Regiment (most likely who he came home with)

Nettuno had been bombed & shelled repeatedly since the squadron's arrival

Original German WWI Private Purchase Bayonet Style Trench Fighting Knife by Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie Rear Sight Assembly As with the other patchOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent example of an upmarket privately purchased fighting knife with scabbard, as used by the Germans in WWI. This design is very similar to the later 98K short dress bayonets. It has a "birds head" steel pommel, with a fully functional bayonet catch. The grips are checkered black bakelite, held on by dressed steel rivets. It also has the typical short "reversed" cross guard seen on most WW1 German