Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Infantry Assault Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff GTRexclude with a gold maker’s mark

with a gold maker’s mark of “V

The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun

John McKenna was born in Sligo and enlisted in the 1st Regiment in Glasgow in Sep 1857

He was taken to jail

The Order of the Golden Kite

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Infantry Assault Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff GTRexclude with a gold maker’s mark(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). A Second War period Infantry Assault Badge, constructed of silvered zink, presenting as an oval oak leaf wreath, with a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika on the top and a bowtie on the bottom, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting