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Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Gold

This award is slightly different than the Spanish Wound Badge, because the crossway placed swords are somewhat broader and the new steel helmet type, the M35 model is used for this badge. The swastika on the helmed is slightly lager and the dots on the intermediary fields are on this badge placed in horizontally lines. Further is the badge oval shaped with a laurel leaves wreath at the outer edge of the badge. At the base of the badge is a knot and at the top are three berries underneath each other placed. The golden version has a solid reverse and is the gilded version of the silver wound badge. The pin with hook construction can just as with the silver version be a thin round pin or a broad flat one. The broad flat pin is the most common pin with hook construction with the golden version. The golden version was awarded for 5 or more wounds or for a single wound that resulted in the loss of manhood, blindness or total disability.

Grid List
NameDate of birthDate of deathAwards
Raaf, Friedrich25-03-192014-03-2002more
Rappholz, Walter04-06-191230-09-1991more
Reber, Gustav-Peter (Waffen SS)05-06-191926-03-2000more
Reck, Max02-12-1911 more
Recktenwald, Nikolaus20-06-191316-03-1944more
Rehenberg, Bernhard (Grenadier-Regiment 17)11-10-1916 more
Reibstein, Günter01-02-1914 more
Reifner, Egon (Pionier-Bataillon 40)05-03-191628-06-1980more
Reim, Ferdinand  more
Reisig, Josef (Grenadier-Ersatz-Bataillon 164)19-11-191420-06-1978more
Reisinger, Friedrich 21-12-1945
Reiter, Hans (Waffen SS)20-04-192015-08-1944more
Rettemeier, Josef-Wilhelm17-09-191419-12-1997more
Rettlinger, Karl (Waffen SS)08-02-191314-06-1990more
Ribbentrop, von, Rudolf (Waffen SS)11-05-192120-05-2019more
Richter, Friedrich (Grenadier-Regiment 698)  more
Richter, Hans-Heinrich22-06-192002-06-1977more
Riehs, Otto (Infanterie-Regiment 55)12-08-192129-05-2008more
Riess, Karl-Heinrich 'Karl-Heinz' (Gren.Reg.282)24-12-1916 more
Rinke, Adolf27-02-191613-04-1945
Rintelen, Josef07-03-189714-07-1981more
Rizzi, Heinrich Eduard22-06-1915 more
Riß, Albert27-03-191225-06-1990
Rocha-Schmidt, da, Klaus (Panzer-Regiment 15)02-04-191514-07-1943
Roitinger, Johann (Hans)27-05-192104-02-1943
Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen15-11-189114-10-1944more
Rosen, Freiherr von, Richard Wilfred Harry Erich28-06-192226-10-2015more
Rotgänger, Erich (Grenadier-Regiment 17)20-01-192025-04-1989more
Rothhardt, Heinz11-02-192108-08-2011more
Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (Schlachtgeschw. 2 "Immelmann")02-07-191618-12-1982more
Rudnick, Erich (Grenadier-Regiment 45)01-07-191625-11-1988more
Rummel, Johannes "Hans"29-10-191429-04-1945
Rupp, Claudius10-09-1919 more
Röhder, Dr.phil. Wolfgang (Waffen SS)17-08-191116-05-1945more
Röseke, Erich24-01-192102-05-1994more

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