Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Hermann Aurich Newly Listed measuring 60 mm x 51

measuring 60 mm x 51 mm

Silver Grade with Packet of Issue - Two-piece construction

left arm resting on a shield with a gorgon at centre

A very rare award to a Serbian soldier

He signed his Attestions for Military Volunteers at the age of seventeen on April 19

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Hermann Aurich Newly Listed measuring 60 mm x 51(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen). Instituted 20 December 1939 by Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch. (Issued 1939 1945). Constructed of silvered fine zinc, obverse depicting an oval shaped oak leaf wreath topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika with a bow tie at the bottom, Karabiner 98k rifle with bayonet and carrying sling set diagonally across badge, maker marked with AS initial logo of Adolf Schwerdt, Stuttgart,