Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, By Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the Battalion was broken up

the Battalion was broken up and absorbed into the 2nd

lightly soiled from proud period wear

Footnote: FERT was the motto of the Royal House of Italy (House of Savoy) and is believed to be derived from the Latin "Foedere et Religione Tenemur" (We are held together by the constitutional pact and by religion)

the last major operation of the Spanish-American War on the island of Cuba

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, By Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the Battalion was broken up(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed 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, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a depressed and crimped hinge with a vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker