This arrived a while ago but have not had time to photograph it before tonight. IR 36 was part of the 9. Infanterie Division and fought in the Kuban bridgehead (among other places). The division was essentially destroyed fighting in Moldova in August of 1944 and was officially disbanded in October. Piped walking out tunics for a Spieß are a little difficult to come by and this is the second I have ever owned. I have examined another that was a conversion from a Waffenrock, but this one was always a piped walking out. It even has the Sabelschlitz through the lower left-hand pocket, but unfortunately no tailor's label nor name tag. I decided to equip his badge loops with a first model wound badge and a nice Deschler & Söhne IAB in silver that was once owned by Thomas Durante.
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