Drawing by Allers
White jacket with gold buttons, silver shoulder straps mixed with red and black and bearing one gold pip denoting the rank of Oberleutnant zur See, white collar. White trousers, white tropical helmet with gold cord running around the band at the base of the crown and black-white-red national cockade on front. The sword is suspended from black hangers beneath the jacket and has a gold hilt, white grip, blqack scabbard with gold fittings, and a silver sword knot mixed with red and black. Silver lace waistbelt. with two black lines and one of red between, and gold buckle. White shoes accompany this dress.
German Naval Landing Detachments
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