Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Grossmann & Co. GTRexclude with two Japanese characters

with two Japanese characters

This officer was in the battery from the landings onwards and worked extremely hard

with five smaller rays on all five sides between each of the larger rays

inscribed with “LVDO VICVS III BAV ARIAE REX V XI MCMXIII AE ANNO LXIX”

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Grossmann & Co. GTRexclude with two Japanese characters(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered 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, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating