Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth GTRexclude where he was named Leading

where he was named Leading Stoker on October 15

a Letter From the War Office in London (informing his parents in Johannesburg of their son's award of the Military Cross

measuring 112 mm (l) x 47 mm (h)

by artist Willy Stöwer (1864-1931)

with a Prussian eagle holding a sword and lightning bolts

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth GTRexclude where he was named Leading(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, 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 hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L14 for Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 36. 17 mm (w) x 43. 91 mm (h), weighing