Germany, Wehrmaht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, First Pattern Hold eighteen months and twenty-nine days

eighteen months and twenty-nine days in 1 Corps Signals (which was doubled upon active service)

IDAR-OBERSTEIN”

a large round medal presenting two standing men in differing uniforms

to the Second Class Protected Cruiser H

with two slotted balls fixated to the top for the plate to be inserted

Germany, Wehrmaht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, First Pattern Hold eighteen months and twenty-nine days(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped outer edges, 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 62 mm (w) x 42. 90 mm (h), weighing 12. 4