Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Josef Feix & Söhne GTRexclude a Cheshire Regiment Cap Badge

a Cheshire Regiment Cap Badge (bronze

and is supplemented by both black-and-white and colour illustrations and photographs

They were taken in Babenhausen (Bavaria)

He died on December 27

maker marked “Oechsler Ansbach” on reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Josef Feix & Söhne GTRexclude a Cheshire Regiment Cap Badge(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen 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, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a