Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction Archive Footnote: John Ritchie was born

Footnote: John Ritchie was born in 1895 and enlisted September 12

and consists of a Heer-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika

that he was not married and that his trade was that of Mechanical Engineer

marked with the stylized F

which included eighteen Canadians (fifteen from Ontario: W

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction Archive Footnote: John Ritchie was born(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm bearing a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 16 mm (w) x 42. 86 mm (h), weighing 11. 7 grams, a