Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Newly Listed with a period-attached horizontal pinback

with a period-attached horizontal pinback

Issued to the 1st and 5th Don Cossack Regiment of the Volunteer Cossack Cavalry Division

numbered “5712”

she was continuously on Atlantic convoy duty

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Newly Listed with a period-attached horizontal pinback(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of a silvered bronze alloy, 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 carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,