Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland National Socialist People’s Welfare Leader’s Badge Newly Listed a Crowned circlet inscribed Wildes

a Crowned circlet inscribed Wildes Rifles

Footnote: John Kirkham was born on July 9

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with the last third of the album depicting the owner’s time at the front while in service with Nahaufklärungsgruppe 3 and Nahaufklärungsgruppe 4 from October 1944 until April 1945

Skirmishes broke out around two flat-topped hills called the Greater and Lesser Arapiles

Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland National Socialist People’s Welfare Leader’s Badge Newly Listed a Crowned circlet inscribed Wildes(Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt Fhrerabzeichen). An oval badge constructed of silvered bronze with red and black enamels, the obverse illustrating the Sudeten Party insignia overlaying a National Socialist Peoples Welfare insignia, flanked by 19 at the left and 38 at the right (1938), the reverse plain with a horizontal pinback, measuring 38. 4 mm (w) x 31. 1 mm (l), weighing 14. 21 grams, patina from age and with the enamels well preserved, in