Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, With Case Newly Listed “Zerstörer Georg Thiele”

“Zerstörer Georg Thiele”

A double-sided sash badge in Gold

with a flag flying from the flagpole above

Butson immediately volunteered to be lowered into the crevasse where he found the American tightly wedged 106 feet down and suffering from shock and exhaustion

numbered "1795" on the edge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, With Case Newly Listed “Zerstörer Georg Thiele”(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded zink, 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 an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting an integral catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 67 mm (w) x 44. 28 mm (h), weighing 19. 9 grams, accompanied by a mis