Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, with Case, Owner-Attributed Example United Republic of Footnote: William Grassie was born

Footnote: William Grassie was born on 27th July 1872 in Aberdeenshire

followed her husband to England and served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (YAD) Corps

the panels are rolled up and secured in place at the front with a pebbled blue bakelite button which emanates from the right flap and meets a reinforced buttonhole on the left flap

the waistband bears three stitched reinforced buttoning holes

Footnote: Kiribati is known by its British colonial name of the “Gilbert Islands”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, with Case, Owner-Attributed Example United Republic of Footnote: William Grassie was born(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered 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 reverse bearing a hand etched owners name of UFFZ. RUDI ZIKOFF, measuring 36. 65 mm (w) x 44.