Germany, Heer. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, With Award Document To Grenadier Franz Jankowiak GTRexclude officially engraved in running script:

officially engraved in running script: Sepoy Jowala Singh 26th

with miniature portrait with some cracking due to age

" at the lower right

with evidence of refinishing throughout

printed by Hans Retzlaff

Germany, Heer. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, With Award Document To Grenadier Franz Jankowiak GTRexclude officially engraved in running script:(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 22 mm (w) x 45. 50 mm (h), weighing 8. 9 grams, in