Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive and a CD containing fourteen

and a CD containing fourteen pages with copies of his Index Cards

page 7349: "For gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East

This is the civilian equivalent to the Military Order of Max Joseph and brought non-noble recipients in the collection of personal nobility with the title "Ritter von"

It is possible that the examples offered were retrieved from either an academy or Waffen-SS unit

entered World War I

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive and a CD containing fourteen(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered feinzink, 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 crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,