Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Buy Now the belt with eight rows

the belt with eight rows of two holes each for length adjustment

At the end of the war he held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer

the obverse pinned with a gilded bronze cypher

Following attacking forces

A Bavarian Military Sanitation Order (Militär-Sanitäts-Orden)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Buy Now the belt with eight rows(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