(Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz im Etui)
They had previously conducted raids in the surrounding villages
glue and green paper residue on the reverse from previous board mounting)
1943 during a shootout with enemy troops
a paramilitary organisation created by the Vichy regime with the help of Nazi Germany to fight the French resistance
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, First Pattern Archive (Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz im(Verwundetenabzeichen). Constructed of brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 40 mm (w) x 42. 43 mm (h), weighing 7. 2 grams, the grade of the badge is