Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern GTRexclude It features a turned down-collar

It features a turned down-collar which is lined in smooth dark green wool and flanked on each side by tabs

The blade sites within a replaced silvered zink upper crossguard

1917 and was awarded a Good Conduct Badge in the field on October 28th

circumscribed by an inscription of “VERFASSUNGSTAG IM JAHRE DER RHEINLANDBEFREIUNG 1930” (“CONSTITUTION DATE IN THE YEAR OF THE RHINELAND’S LIBERATION 1930”)

and is not to be taken on combat flights

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern GTRexclude It features a turned down-collar(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of a blackened zink alloy, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, around a central raised Stahlhelm bearing a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 60 mm (w) x 43. 40 mm (h), weighing 8. 7 grams, with minor oxidation and loss of finish