Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, First Pattern United Republic of spotting on the reverse)

spotting on the reverse)

for example as a works manager in a printing company and later in a conveyance company

2 mm (w) x 106

surrounded by the inscription "IM JAHRE DER OLYMPISCHEN SPIELE"

issued in Lemberg on 20 April 1944

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, First Pattern United Republic of spotting on the reverse)(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 57 mm (w) x 42. 85 mm (h), weighing 12. 2 grams, in a rare first pattern badge