Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By C.e. Juncker Archive and red BeVo style machine

and red BeVo style machine embroidery

6019: CPl A

the War Merit Cross could be awarded instead: from 1922 onwards

he was appointed the head of a German military mission to the Ottoman Empire in 1913

published by the Oxford University Press

Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By C.e. Juncker Archive and red BeVo style machine(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, presenting as an oval oak leaf wreath, with a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika on the top and a bowtie on the bottom, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse plain, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked,