Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland National Socialist People’s Welfare Leader’s Badge Newly Listed with the last third of

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

a Crowned circlet inscribed Wildes Rifles

Footnote: John Kirkham was born on July 9

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along with the leaping stag insignia of the Gabrovo-based manufacturer

Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland National Socialist People’s Welfare Leader’s Badge Newly Listed with the last third of(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