Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, with Case Newly Listed In the Spring of 1916

In the Spring of 1916

The South African War (with five chapters)

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Upon the outbreak of hostilities during the Second World War

a stoker/boiler operator at Kriegsmarinewerft Kiel

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, with Case Newly Listed In the Spring of 1916(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz mit Etui). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 11 mm (w) x 44. 93 mm (h), weighing 11. 7 grams, accompanied