Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, With Award Documents Newly Listed Accompanied by the silk sash

Accompanied by the silk sash of the order

bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a red enameled Lippe rose

A Medical Board met there on November 16

with the Latin inscription ALTIORA PETO (I Aspire to the Highest)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, With Award Documents Newly Listed Accompanied by the silk sash(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz, mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of blackened bronze, 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 08 mm (w) x 44. 28 mm (h), weighing 13. 5 grams, in