Germany, Third Reich. A Faithful Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years with Case, by Deschler & Sohn visually-hidden The Wound Badge in Black

The Wound Badge in Black document is named to Schütze Horst Bitter on the same unit as listed above for being wounded once on June 26

(Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher frontkämpfer-Bund - Der Stahlhelm Insignien)

1939 and during this period

mounted to a horizontal pinback

issued in the field on 27 December 1943

Germany, Third Reich. A Faithful Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years with Case, by Deschler & Sohn visually-hidden The Wound Badge in Black(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre mit Etui). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular gilt oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a gilt number 50, the reverse bearing a central inscription of