Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, Hohl Verbödet Version Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the light green canvas webbing

the light green canvas webbing attached to the body of the liner by six rivets

A rare and extensive collection of awards and documents from the estate of Luftwaffe fighter ace Leutnant Karl Brill

Footnote: Frank Stanley Patterson was born on December 13

also of Peterborough

The cap exhibits slight discolouration in the white piping and green wool upper

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, Hohl Verbödet Version Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the light green canvas webbing(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 49 mm (w) x 43. 78 mm (h), weighing 24. 7