Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern GTRexclude on a coated paper stock

on a coated paper stock

101 other ranks and served in France and Belgium with the 1st Infantry Brigade

white cotton backer with the inscription "1952-53 Korea - 1 Comwel Div"

The blade sites within a replaced silvered zink upper crossguard

circumscribed by an inscription of “VERFASSUNGSTAG IM JAHRE DER RHEINLANDBEFREIUNG 1930” (“CONSTITUTION DATE IN THE YEAR OF THE RHINELAND’S LIBERATION 1930”)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern GTRexclude on a coated paper stock(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of a blackened zink alloy, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, around a central raised Stahlhelm bearing a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 60 mm (w) x 43. 40 mm (h), weighing 8. 7 grams, with minor oxidation and loss of finish