Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, By Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The later part of 1916

The later part of 1916 through to mid-1917 saw him hospitalized at various facilities

metal gilded insignia on red cotton (small damage at the bottom of one tab)

came in three classes: I Class Gold Grade

when war came in 1914

the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreathed

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, By Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The later part of 1916(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a depressed and crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire