A German Stretcher-Bearer’s Front Pouch with Bandages, Tourniquet, and Field Dressing

Small Version; Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (D.K.R) black leather medical pouch carried by stretcher bearers; approximately 17 cm x 7 cm x 10 cm; two vertical leather tabs on both sides fasten to steel studs to close the flap; two straps secured with rivets bound through riveted straps fasten to steel studs on the bottom of the pouch. With the fold-over pouch flap released, the pouch opens to a ninety degree angle, exposing the contents; impressed to the rear of the pouch body is “D.R.K Sanitätslager Badelsberg 10”; some wear marks on the leather, pouch is in very fine condition. Contents of the pouch as follows; sealed disinfected Red Cross bandage, two medium sealed disinfected bandages by Carl Henkel (Bielefeld), 2 small sealed disinfected bandages by Carl Henkel (Bielefeld), tourniquet (with sewn on instructions to remove after 2 hours to see if bleeding has stopped), field dressing by Professor Ersmarch depicting how the dressing is to be used.Contents overall extremely condition. Footnote: During the late stages of the war when trained Sanitäer became increasingly rare, the Wehrmacht provided stretcher bearers with only limited knowledge of first aid pouches like these in case a Sanitäter was not available.