Germany, Heer. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, With Award Document To Grenadier Franz Jankowiak Hold all of the Royal Air

all of the Royal Air Force

Gauvreau was posted to the Repatriation Depot at RAF Houghton Green

constructed of a finely detailed die-stamped metal eagle superimposed on a hand embroidered oval open-top bullion wreath

It was worn on the right breast on ward dress for commissioned (qualified) nurses

at the time of his birth part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Germany, Heer. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, With Award Document To Grenadier Franz Jankowiak Hold all of the Royal Air(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