and edged by burgundy colored threads (indicating the Gau level)
The belt is composed of two pieces of thin smooth-finished black leather stitched end-to-end
and fine centre enamel work
Over the next three months the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade would experience the heaviest shelling and mortaring of any period that it spent in the front lines
chipping evident on the exterior
Three First War German Imperial Wound Badges Archive and edged by burgundy coloredGold Grade (iron with a gold coloured gilt, magnetic, unmarked, 38. 3 mm x 43. 5 mm, vertical pinback); Silver Grade (silvered iron, magnetic, unmarked, 38. 5 mm x 43 mm, vertical pinback); and Black Grade (blackened iron, magnetic, unmarked, 38. 5 mm x 43. 2 mm, vertical pinback). Extremely fine. (C: 76)