Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (yellow

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (yellow embroidered lettering on green felt

obverse bearing a right facing portrait of King Umberto I

This work was funded by Canadian Life Insurance companies and Federal Public Health Research Grants

(Fallschirmjäger Papier und Fotografien)

the reverse inscribed in Malay written in Arabic characters (without the unwritten small vowels) ‘Dmhkootakn / Dbali Lbsr / Krajan’

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (yellow(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). 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 clip hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 32 mm (w) x 43. 84 mm