Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade United Republic of Major (then Lieutenant-Colonel) William James

Major (then Lieutenant-Colonel) William James Morrison hurried home to investigate in June 1917

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey threaded oval oak leaf wreath

67 mm x 67

was born in India on July 7

measuring 225 mm (w) x 120 mm (h)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade United Republic of Major (then Lieutenant-Colonel) William James(Panzerkampfabzeichen 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, with a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 41. 88 mm