Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Fritz Zimmermann & Söhne Of Lüdenscheid GTRexclude Carlyle 1st Bn Gord: Highrs)

Carlyle 1st Bn Gord: Highrs) Naming is officially engraved inverted italic script

LEVESON-GOWER

where he was apparently an able athlete and marksman

before being invalided to England and returning to Canada and permitted to wear the War Service Badge

Footnote: In 1902

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Fritz Zimmermann & Söhne Of Lüdenscheid GTRexclude Carlyle 1st Bn Gord: Highrs)A scarce example by this maker; a silver grade Infantry Assault Badge Infanterie Sturmabzeichen; in silvered zink; with a vertical needle style pinback, with a sheet metal hinge and a rounded wire catch; maker marked with the stylized logo for Fritz Zimmermann & Shne, Zimmermann manufacture; measuring 62. 83 mm x 49. 08 mm; with approximately 50% of the original silvering remaining; very fine condition.