Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Newly Listed due to their notoriously unpleasant

due to their notoriously unpleasant conditions

Scott was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant and posted to the 4th Battalion

Pinned into the centre of the cap band is a tri-colour cockade constructed of gilded and blued bronze with a red felt centrepiece

depicting an Iron Cross in the middle of the badge

Third Republic: Cross for External Theatres of Operations (in bronze

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Newly Listed due to their notoriously unpleasant(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, above a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four oak leaves and sun rays with acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, designer marked PEEKHAUS, BERLIN and maker