Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, By Werner Redo Archive The 1st Depot Battalion

The 1st Depot Battalion

one 102nd Ordnance Company and one 102nd MTCL

so this may be a prototype or a mid-War proposed production that never materialized

Rörich was trained as a troop signals radio operator

with reverse "AM 25 August 1827"

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, By Werner Redo Archive The 1st Depot Battalion(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen). An oval shaped oak leaf wreath in silvered zink, with a national eagle clutching a swastika on the top and a bowtie on the bottom. Diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle; the reverse plain; with a vertical round wire pinback, a sheet metal hinge, and a slightly rounded wire catch; marked W. R. 42. for Werner Redo