Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Archive and Pau Koziol (b

and Pau Koziol (b

Son: Bombardier (Later Sergeant Major) Frank Alfred Edward Cooke

The top opening on both have 17 mm wide tie straps

LOOS” and a designer mark of “L

six American units arrived in France for duty with the British Expeditionary Force

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Archive and Pau Koziol (b(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, 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 107 for Carl Wild, Hamburg, measuring 36. 92 mm (w) x 44.