Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Buy Now Lewis of Collingwood (later of

Lewis of Collingwood (later of Hull

(Orden de San Raimundo de Peñafort)

Footnote: George William Tolson was born in 1898 joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman in 1914

flanked by a Feldpost stamp with a number that appears to read “56509”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Buy Now Lewis of Collingwood (later of(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 39. 10 mm (w) x 44. 45 mm (h), weighing 13. 7 grams,