Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, Wide Pin Variant with Case, by the Vienna Mint visually-hidden Footnote: This medal was awarded

Footnote: This medal was awarded to NCO's and Men for campaign against Napoleon's Army in 1797

pasted to a card stock backer and measuring 135 mm (w) x 105 mm (h)

(HJ Bilder)

followed at the close of the year with a posting to the Torpedo School at HMS Vernon

a tan backer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, Wide Pin Variant with Case, by the Vienna Mint visually-hidden Footnote: This medal was awarded(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a clip hinge and wide flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 56 mm (w) x 43.