Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, First Pattern Archive Joseph Cox

Joseph Cox

Footnote: Reimers was born on October 24th

“for repeated acts of bravery on the battlefields between Leningrad and Pskov

A Third Reich period medal bar featuring four decorations

Russia: Type 3

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, First Pattern Archive Joseph Cox(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinack meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 64 mm (w) x 43. 77 mm (h), weighing 25. 2 grams,