A First War Imperial Navy "Kaiserliche Marine" Commander/Lieutenant Commander's Dress Epaulette With Surgeon's Cypher Auction Archive 1916 and was discharged to

1916 and was discharged to duty the next day

nine with crossed bronze swords clasps

Footnote: Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) was a German field marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany following World War I

from April 30

He was discharged April 27

A First War Imperial Navy "Kaiserliche Marine" Commander/Lieutenant Commander's Dress Epaulette With Surgeon's Cypher Auction Archive 1916 and was discharged toLarge, decorative stiff framed epaulette, upper in violet velvet, the outer edges of the protruding tab trimmed in a strip of fine aluminum wire interlaced with red and black threading, a gilt Surgeon's cypher affixed to the oval cap, large raised gold coloured bullion wire ridge flanked with two rows of rolled wire trim butting the protruding wide oval cap, two rows of tightly wound gold coloured bullion wire fringe suspended at the end, the outer