Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, Wide Pin Variant with Case, by the Vienna Mint visually-hidden pasted to a card stock

pasted to a card stock backer and measuring 135 mm (w) x 105 mm (h)

and with an integral loop connecting to a reinforced suspension ring

Order of Liberation

followed at the close of the year with a posting to the Torpedo School at HMS Vernon

in which she remained in service until 1932

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, Wide Pin Variant with Case, by the Vienna Mint visually-hidden pasted to a card stock(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 wide flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 56 mm (w) x 43.