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 Staff Sergeant C

Staff Sergeant C

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

where he was named a Lance Corporal

An emergency dive was ordered

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 Staff Sergeant C(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