Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity " It left me with

" It left me with real sad memories thinking about my wife whom I married just two weeks before I left for overseas

recipient of the Iron Cross 2nd Class and Eastern Front Medal

the face with a circular central medallion bearing a figure of St George on horseback slaying the dragon within a ring with beaded borders bearing stylised laurel sprays and surrounded by sapphires upper and lower left and right with five pearls above and four pearls left

This was done when the actual position had to be kept a secret

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity " It left me with(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). A Wound Badge constructed of zink, the obverse depicts a Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) bearing a mobile swastika on top of crossed swords over a pebbled field with a laurel branch wreath, reverse marked 26 for B. H. Mayers Kunstprgeanstalt, Pforzheim, reverse presents a vertical pinback, measuring 36. 57 mm (w) x 43. 98 mm (h), and in good condition.