Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, By B.h. Mayer Archive He served with the 5th

He served with the 5th Brigade

the reverse dated “1915-1918”

the son of Hobart Hartley (1897-1966) and Elizabeth Hartley (1892-1985) of Versailles

Constructed of a triangular tan-coloured cotton patch bearing a machine-embroidered cream/grey-threaded Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, By B.h. Mayer Archive He served with the 5th(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of a silvered zink alloy, 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 an integrated round catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim, measuring 36. 56 mm (w) x 43. 90 mm (h),