on a 100 mm-long metal bar
whose membership consists of armed-forces veterans who
the obverse inscribed with “1914/1918” within an open-ended laurel wreath
the Companion of the Order of St
1918 and later received fourteen days leave in Paris that October
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair Of Black Grade Wound Badges Auction on a 100 mm-long metal(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). A pair of Wound Badges, including a First War badge, constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse depicting a Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field with laurel branch wreath, unmarked, reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 39. 85 mm (w) x 45. 32mm (h), weighing 11. 2 grams, in near extremely fine condition, and; a Second