11-09-2008, 10:05 PM
What has not been mentioned and it becomes very evident when we examine the pictures, this thing what ever it might be that is ontop of the scabbard is not from our soldier in question. It is a piece of another scabbard which now gives us three situations of this type of thing, the very bold one we are looking at then the scabbard of our soldier and of course the depiction on the tomb stone. In my opinion I would say that in all cases it is a portion of a belt of sorts, for the tomb stone tends to show a buckle at the bottom end.
Brian Stobbs
