Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge Hold a 1935 Altötting Sports Festival

a 1935 Altötting Sports Festival badge

Footnote: Ensign Martin Benson Private Peter Arnott is shown on the roll of the 185 man 15th Battalion of Infantry (Belleville) and is listed on page 89 of the "Canada General Service Medal Roll

measuring 42 mm (w) x 55 mm (l)

with moderate wear to the black iron core from period wear

all in silver-coloured ink

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge Hold a 1935 Altötting Sports Festival(Panzerkampfabzeichen). An unusual Panzer Assault Badge, constructed of zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, maker marked