Description
Instituted on 14 July 1942
He embarked Southampton for service in the French theatre on September 14
and worked as a shopkeeper before joining the SS
1st Earl of Chatham
One to an inmate of Dachau
Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Julius Bauer & Co. Archive Instituted on 14 July 1942(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered 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 round wire catch, unmarked but