A First Strike Tank Badge Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory GTRexclude inscribed in handwritten blue ink

inscribed in handwritten blue ink by Bingham: "TO RORY

which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge

Each with fold marks and lightly soiled

found that he had been gazetted an Ensign on November 10

he had received the Iron Cross 2nd Class and just previous to that

A First Strike Tank Badge Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory GTRexclude inscribed in handwritten blue inkDie stamped silvered zinc, unmarked, 47. 2 mm x 65. 5 mm, extremely fine. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during construction on the site, a quantity of medals was discovered (about 50 kilos) and bought by eMedals. Some were in good condition, but most of the pieces