Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Otto Schickle Hold 63 mm (w) x 65

63 mm (w) x 65

suspended from a a eight-pointed silver gilt star with white enameled arms

also maker marked on 6 o'clock arm with VM

1926 that a distinctive insignia was introduced at the request of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

Keeley arrived in England via the SS Southland in February 1917

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Otto Schickle Hold 63 mm (w) x 65(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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, surrounding a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but