gilt wear evident on the Bronze Grade Military Merit Medal and the Commemorative Cross 1848-1908
the obverse in the form of a horizontal oval-shaped laurel wreath with a central motif of a stylized U-Boat traveling to the left (neither the bow nor the stern extend over the outer border)
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to Private/Colour Sergeant Major (Warrant Officer 2nd Class) Thomas Beasley
the medal bar with a metal core (magnetic)
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By Klein & Quenzer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac gilt wear evident on the(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around 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, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 65 for Klein & Quenzer, Idar Oberstein, measuring 36. 74 mm (w) x