Germany, Wehrmacht. A First Pattern Wound Badge, Gold Grade Archive Senior Members who were awarded

Senior Members who were awarded the Falcon Award may continue to wear it as their highest cadet award with their other ribbons

including a Prussian Medal for Rescue from Danger

the reverse with the numeral “12” within a closed oak wreath

that he was a Widower and that his trade was that of Labourer (Plasterer)

the medal bar with a brass core and a horizontal pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A First Pattern Wound Badge, Gold Grade Archive Senior Members who were awarded(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). A first pattern Holhverbdet Wound Badge, Gold Grade, constructed of gilded tombak, 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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened integrated catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 06 mm (w) x 42. 90