Germany, Wehrmaht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, First Pattern Hold eighteen months and twenty-nine days

eighteen months and twenty-nine days in 1 Corps Signals (which was doubled upon active service)

with two slotted balls fixated to the top for the plate to be inserted

awarded to heads of state on the occasion of official visits to the Holy See

the academy combined with San Antonio Academy with W

In cotton or wool

Germany, Wehrmaht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, First Pattern Hold eighteen months and twenty-nine days(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped outer 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 crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 62 mm (w) x 42. 90 mm (h), weighing 12. 4