Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, By Moritz Hausch Auction 1915 with a strength of

1915 with a strength of 45 officers and 1

He was working as a clerk for a contractor in 1911 at the age of 19

that his religion was Roman Catholic and that his trade was that of Student (later acknowledged in his records as Labourer)

XIV: The Old Somme

gilded “GD” in iron (magnetic)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, By Moritz Hausch Auction 1915 with a strength of(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 12 mm (w) x 44. 67 mm (h), accompanied by its period original presentation package, constructed