Thank you guys. Happy New Year.   Semper Fi.   Manny

Thanks, curious to know what the ribbon color blue means.

AS THE NAZI PARTY KEPT METICULOUS RECORDS, I WAS AMAZED THAT NAMES WERE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AWARDING OF 'HONOR WEAPONS'

I believe that sometimes the Type A is referred to as the Wounds for Veterans, and the type B is for wounds or illness for Civil Service employees. Don't really know. Dave

Looks like a commemorative medal for a veteran’s group. 

This looks like a Franco Prussian war medal, anybody tell me what the ribbon signifies? Usually, the ribbons on those are just black, white and red, but this one has blue also.   Is the medal a veterans medal for serving in the Franco prussian war? I have yet to find a medal like this one with my research.

Will check out Wassell if I can find it.  Thanks Scott

Great info.  Just what I was looking for.... Richie and Sarge   I assume the purpose was to defend against charging cavalry....

Were you a police officer Sarge?

Any hope of matching this list of names to the Luftwaffe soldiers in the picture taken at the training center in Schlesig-Holstein in 1940?  Especially interested in the 3rd guy from the left as I'm almost sure that he is the photographer of my group of film negatives.  Only hint I have is he may be from Bremen and ended up in a Panzer School unit around 1943.

To me it looks like the larger skull for wear on a peaked cap rather than the small skull for wear on a collar tab.  If so, I don't think it is real as the cap skulls had different attachment pins, not these flat dull pins at the top and bottom of the edge of the skull.  I also think the pins are too wide and dull for originals.        

I received a nice gift of a Type B Wound Badge over the weekend that I thought I might talk about.  The badge that starts this thread is referred to as a "Type A" badge for combat wounds.  It is gold colored and has words indicating this criteria on the reverse.  The badge I received as a gift from another local collector who collects these badges is the second kind of Type B badge awarded for non-combat such as illness.  This badge is silver and again has wording on the reverse that indicates the wounds were not received in combat.   The Type A badges were for combat wounds 戦傷 (Sensho) and the Type B for other wounds and illnesses 公傷　(Kosho) while in military service.   I am grateful for the gift and it is a really nice end for me to collecting year 2024.