A Mint German Black Grade Wound Badge; Alternative 1957 Version Archive Pforzheim - magnetic core

Pforzheim - magnetic core

has been a faithful and untiring linesman

“EUPHRATES”

He was a grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria and related to many monarchs and princes of Europe

1915 and suffered a gun shot wound to the face

A Mint German Black Grade Wound Badge; Alternative 1957 Version Archive Pforzheim - magnetic coreA second war German Verwundetenabzeichen; stamped oval shaped blackened tombac; the obverse pebbled with a Stahlhelm superimposed on crossed swords within a wreath of laurel wreaths with a tied bow at the bottom (note the lack of a swastika on the helmet); the reverse plain with a vertical needle style pin, sheet metal hinge (with the pin holding the pin in place slightly loose), and a round wire catch; measuring 44. 63 mm x 37. 29 mm; weighing 10. 1