Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude enamel chipping and contact evident

enamel chipping and contact evident on the Purple Heart

) A white-enamelled Maltese cross with white enameled arms

at Langemarck in November 1917

he was awarded the Oak Leaves to his Pour le Mérite on August 27

with Three Bronze Stars

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude enamel chipping and contact evident(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronze zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, with a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four acorns and sun rays with dual acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, bearing the remnants of a designer mark of