Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by B.H. Mayer Hold "while on active service (Craddock

"while on active service (Craddock was) absent without leave from Tattoo on September 23rd"

naming his next-of-kin as Annie Clark of Renfrew

It was sent to the Liguarian coast in Italy in July 1944 and served as an anti-partisan and coastal security unit assigned to the mixed German-Italian Armee Ligurien

and contained within case of issue

Footnote: The Royal and Military Order of St Ferdinand was instituted on August 31

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by B.H. Mayer Hold "while on active service (Craddock(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 in a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch,