Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Order of Military Merit with

Order of Military Merit with White Distinction (Peacetime Merit)

It concludes with twelve Appendices (II - List of Officers Killed in Action

demonstrating minor material-fatigue

Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (bronze gilt on iron

Krämer was shot through the left hand in Ssucha-Niwa

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Order of Military Merit with(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz 1. Modell). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 75 mm (w) x 44. 04 mm (h), weighing 12. 9 grams,