with a lightly textured black faux leather exterior
He signed his Attestation Paper with the 6th Mounted Rifle Battalion on April 6
it sits securely within a gilded bronze crossguard which bears double-sided central fouled anchors
Major Arthur Arnold Barrett
a Heer field cap insignia
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, Unknown Maker Variant Hold with a lightly textured black(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz, 1. Form). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, the obverse with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by a documented by unidentified