Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By B.h. Mayer Archive Canada: Royal Canadian Air Force

Canada: Royal Canadian Air Force Ground Observer Corps Badge (bronze gilt with red and blue enamels

Elements of the medal

A Anti-Communist Propaganda Pin -

Commander Robert Bartels of U-197 had radioed a distress signal on 20 August 1943

Footnote: Arthur Edwin Pitcher was born on October 28

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By B.h. Mayer Archive Canada: Royal Canadian Air Force(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm bearing a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened integral catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim, measuring 36. 65 mm (w) x