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    Alfred Minchin's BFC tunic questions

    Greetings, I've always been interested in foreign volunteer Waffen SS tunics and I decided that I was going to buy all the reproduction pieces I need and make a tunic for my collection. I decided to make a British Free Corps tunic, specifically a replica of the one that Alfred Minchin wore in the well known photo in his BFC tunic and I have a few questions before I start putting it together. Any help is much appreciated.

    #1- It's hard to tell in the one photo of him that I know of, but is he wearing an M42 or an M43 tunic?

    #2- Would the Sturmmann chevron be subdued since the BFC came later in the war? Again, hard to tell from the photo.

    #3- What type of sleeve eagle is he wearing in the photo? A BeVo one or an embroidered one?

    Again any help is appreciated, thank you so much.

    #2
    Here we are then:

    It's an M42 tunic

    It looks to me like a Bevo sleeve eagle and a bright Sturmmann chevron (contrast with the army Gefreiter on the right). Note also the NCO candidate tresse on his shoulder board and the metal totenkopf on his cap.
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      #3
      Thank you very much for your help.

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        #4
        The man on the right is from Kriegsmarine.

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