Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Second Pattern by Friedrich Linden Hold Oxford Rifles (red embroidered lettering

Oxford Rifles (red embroidered lettering on black felt

000 members in 40 local groups

with an additional smaller embroidered label below inscribed DRY CLEAN ONLY

the type of plane he would fly in combat

Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (his service number acknowledged as B-37609 on the RHLI website)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Second Pattern by Friedrich Linden Hold Oxford Rifles (red embroidered lettering(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, situated over 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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval plate with