Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, with Case, Owner-Attributed Example United Republic of 43mm x 30mm

43mm x 30mm

the panels are rolled up and secured in place at the front with a pebbled blue bakelite button which emanates from the right flap and meets a reinforced buttonhole on the left flap

the remaining eight badges are unmarked

Footnote: Kiribati is known by its British colonial name of the “Gilbert Islands”

followed her husband to England and served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (YAD) Corps

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, with Case, Owner-Attributed Example United Republic of 43mm x 30mm(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse bearing a hand etched owners name of UFFZ. RUDI ZIKOFF, measuring 36. 65 mm (w) x 44.