Germany. A Female Rad “Maidenführerin” Rank Badge; First Pattern Buy Now Light contact and gilt wear

Light contact and gilt wear

Discharge Certificate and the 46th Infantry Battalion War Diary for October 26

The Grenadier Regiment 347 as part of the 197th Division was stationed in Russia and in late 1943 was involved in heavy defensive battles against the Red Army

Wounded in right knee with shrapnel consequently invalided to England and the present disability resulting

measuring 23 mm x 25 mm

Germany. A Female Rad “Maidenführerin” Rank Badge; First Pattern Buy Now Light contact and gilt wearA third reich period female RAD subsidiary (Deutscher Frauenarbeitsdienst German Womens Labour Service) Maidenfhrerin rank brooch; constructed of silvered bronze; the obverse depicting a mobile swastika, with six wheat stalks, circumscribed Arbeit fr dein Volk adelt dich selbst (German Labour on behalf of the people nobles you) in traditional German script; horizontal pinback l; unmarked, but numbered 52446 on the reverse; measuring 43. 66 mm in