Wwi Officer's Orilux Trench Torch Archive having been credited with serving

having been credited with serving in Britain and France and earning a War Service Badge

Vienna (second model by this maker

19 MAR 1941" on the inside leaf

Every German citizen was issued one and was expected to produce it when confronted by officials

superimposed on the black shield

Wwi Officer's Orilux Trench Torch Archive having been credited with servingWWI Officer's Orilux Trench Torch The body of the torch is fabricated from metal, capsule shaped and covered in a pebbled leather wrap, with a large bull's eye style glass lens on the front, supported by a protruding circular metal frame. The metal top is held in place with screws on either end and has two posts, one with a large adjustable knob, the other side having lost its smaller adjustable knob to time. Between the posts resides a brass plaque