Includes: 12th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge (in browning copper
measuring 85 mm (w) x 60 mm (h)
which condemned captured prisoners and ensured a high level of brutality by German soldiers against Soviet civilians
Footnote: 16715-H Pilot Officer 1st Class William Michael Clarke was a Naval Aviator (Observer) in the Royal Canadian Navy
also maker marked with the "OLC" (Overhoff & Cie Lüdenscheid) insignia on the third row on the reverse
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück certificate_of_authenticity Includes: 12th Infantry Battalion Cap(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid,