Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge Newly Listed the Battalion worked on defensive

the Battalion worked on defensive positions at various locations and received its first taste of action in Darwin

the lower left of the obverse bearing the studio mark of Heinrich Hoffmann

missing screwplate

4th Sea Lord (1924)

two pinch pins on reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge Newly Listed the Battalion worked on defensive(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 raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 02 mm (w) x 44. 38 mm (h), weighing 11. 9 grams, in extremely fine