Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Third Pattern by Friedirch Linden Auction 1st Class for Forty Years'

1st Class for Forty Years' Service (gold-coloured gilt on metal and black enamels

measuring 40 mm (w) x 56 mm (l)

From Staden we were taken to Roulers and then across Germany to Bischofswerda

A presentation mounted medal bar

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Third Pattern by Friedirch Linden Auction 1st Class for Forty Years'(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed 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, overlaying a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and wide banjo style pinback (in this makers characteristic fat belly style) meeting a