German, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, with Recipient Photo, by Heinrich Wander Auction Includes: Merchant Marine Expeditionary Award

Includes: Merchant Marine Expeditionary Award

where he held the rank of SS-Sturmmann in the 8th Company of the SS Artillery Training and Reserve Regiment

decorated through the obverse with irregularly shaped imitation bone tiles

It is a copy of “Den Tyske Ugerevy” (The German Newsreel)

and thence Blida

German, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, with Recipient Photo, by Heinrich Wander Auction Includes: Merchant Marine Expeditionary Award(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz mit Foto). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, 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 clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 61 mm (w) x 44. 27 mm (h), weighing 6. 8 grams, accompanied by