Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild GTRexclude Constructed of a field-grey card

Constructed of a field-grey card stock binding

a letter dated 20 June 1944

followed by a posting to the Reserve Brigade

on red wool armband

The book concludes with a Sources and Bibliography

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild GTRexclude Constructed of a field-grey card(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around 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, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 107 for Carl Wild, Hamburg, measuring 36. 83 mm (w) x 44.