Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Linden of Lüdenscheid - 3rd Pattern with Crimped Hardware and Fluted Pin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 2 with horizontal pinback

2 with horizontal pinback

59mm (w) x 58mm (h)

he fought at the Western Front

In bronze gilt consisting of a Crutch Cross with red enameled arms

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Linden of Lüdenscheid - 3rd Pattern with Crimped Hardware and Fluted Pin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 2 with horizontal pinback(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Instituted November 25th, 1942 (Mid to Late War Issue). A vaulted example, constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade situated over a hollow void, flanked on each side by four oak leaves and sun rays interspersed with two acorns, the reverse with a magnetic square block