suffering a wound to his neck from artillery fragments
Savoia-Marchetti Airplane Badge - a round die stamped aluminum badge
Naming is officially impressed on the First War trio and privately engraved on the DM
measuring 35mm (w) x 59mm (h - inclusive of Royal Crown with horizontally pierced ball suspension adorned by cross)
the Wound Badge in Silver (1 March 1943)
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Black Grade Wound Badge, By The Vienna Mint Hold suffering a wound to his(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 74 mm (w) x 44. 00 mm (h),