Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude ATJEH 1875-1896 & KLEINE SOENDA-EILANDEN

ATJEH 1875-1896 & KLEINE SOENDA-EILANDEN 1905-1906 - Nickel

M MATTHIESEN & CO

He may have been among those many male adolescents

but transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an Air Mechanic 2nd Class in March 1915

5 mm (h) x 45 mm (w)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude ATJEH 1875-1896 & KLEINE SOENDA-EILANDEN(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse with a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, within a square oak leaf wreath with a bronzed magnetic metal backplate, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, flanked on each side by four oak leaves and two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire