Wehrmacht (Heer) Veterinary Officer's M36 Field Blouse (Feldbluse M36) and document grouping, named to 'Oberveterinär Hans-Joachim Büge'. This is an Enlisted Men/NCO’s type field blouse with dark-green collar. The tunic is in overall very good condition with light age and wear toning, there is some minor staining and some damage around the collar caused by wear. The buttons are all the field-grey pebbled examples. Tunic has nice quality Shoulder-boards of the sew-in type, collar tabs and a flat-wire woven breast-eagle. All insignia are in good condition and original hand-applied. Metal Veterinarian cyphers are one pip are attached to the shoulder-boards indicating the rank of 'Oberveterinär'. There are loops to the wearer's left breast-pocket to attach one medal. The interior of the field blouse is partially lined in ribbed, grey cotton, there is a small bandage pocket on the lower right. The field blouse is nicely size marked (chest size 100cms) and maker marked. The tunic is in overall very good condition.

When individuals received their registration notice they were to report to the appropriate recruitment center where they would be issued a 'Wehrpaß', until they were inducted into active duty. From the autumn of 1939, when an individual was inducted into active military service the Wehrpaß was exchanged at the recruitment office for the 'Soldbuch' (Pay Book), which remained in the recipients possession as his official military identification document. The recruitment office would retain the Wehrpass and chronicle the individuals active service record in it. This Soldbuch belonged to 'Hans-Joachim Büge', he served within the 'St./I.R.280' (Infanterie-Regiment 280) which was part of the 95. Infanterie Division, he served in several related units within the 95th Infantry Division during the war. He was promoted five times and ended up being a Veterinary Officer in the rank of 'Stabsveterinär'. According to his Soldbuch Hans-Joachim has been awarded with several awards, see list below description. The grouping is complete with his 'Erkennungsmarke' (ID-tag) which matches with his Soldbuch, both showing the unique personal number '79'. Included is another pair of Veterinary Officer shoulder-boards in the rank of 'Stabsveterinär'. The grouping comes with his personal photo-album including a lot of pre-war photographs of his student time showing the various persons wearing NSDAP Party badges or pins, there are approximately 45 photographs related to his military career, most are glued into the album, some of the photographs look like the might be of post-war print, maybe give to him by comrades. The photos are all related to his unit, one photo showing field graves of one of his units. Rare and interesting grouping that surely merits further investigation!