Naval Badge

[Jan Arne S]

Hi Guys !
Need your help on this Naval Badge .
What kind of badge is that , and what is the value on that badge .

Lillegutt

[Hannibal]

Dear Lillegutt

That is a 1914 naval wound badge, Wilhelm II introduced it on 24 June 1918. The naval wound badge had three classes just like the army wound badge however it is more scarce compared to the standard wound badge. I can't tell what grade it is but I would think you would need to pay 20-30% more than a standard army wound badge in the same grade for a naval one. Hope this helps.

best regards

[Christian L]

would say that it's an naval wounded badge in black (lowest grad)
nice one - you don't see them as often as army wounded dages (in black)

chris

[Rick Research]

I can't tell from the scan if it is a very worn black or silver either, but brass base metal is rather unusual. Most of the ones I have seen are steel.

Here is a steel based silver grade I snaggled back in the 1970s from a defunct WW1-WW2 period German military effects dealer's stock, unused. Could have gotten all three grades, but was then in my Third Reich phase and blew it. They were all unissued, never bought by customers due to lack of demand way back at the time!

[Rick Research]

Many of the naval pinback WW1 badges seem to have been on needle pins to just push into uniforms without the usual tunic loops. What looks like "black" here is actually the storage wear down to bare steel.

[Rick Research]

The number of AWARDED Naval 1918 type wound badges was no doubt vastly rarer than the army ones:

not only was the navy tiny compared to the army, but given the nature of naval warfare, men were either uninjured... or dead.

I'm not sure what sort (army or navy) the members of Marinekorps Flanders got, since I've never seen a group of documents to a wounded veteran of that force. I know that Marine Infantry in CHINA got the naval type when they returned home from Japanese captivity in 1920. Naval personnel wounded in Freikorps fighting 1919+ received the ARMY type wound badge.

Most of the silver or gold class naval wound badges were probably 1936 regulations change bestowals, for single crippling/disabling degrees of wounds. It is mind boggling to even imagine a sailor earning a 1918 gold badge for five separate wounds!

The naval wound badges are NOT especially hard to find. Prices seem to have shot up dramatically in recent years, on the basis of AWARDED rather than MANUFACTURED pieces. I think most of the ones made, like mine, probably sat for decades in some shopkeeper's back drawer, waiting for a retail demand from original recipients that never actually materialized!

[Frank Heukemes]

Here is my more subdued silver example, also made from steel.

Cheers, Frank H.

[Frank Heukemes]

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[Jan Arne S]

Wound Badge

Hi Guys !
Thanks for input and comments .
WW1 is not my best side of badges . I get this badge together with a lot of other badge from WW2 here in Norway . The lot was 22 badges and medals . Taken of a Norwegian Offiser from German Prisoner of War . Some of them was denazified .
I will post pics of back of badge later , back of badge has silver colour . Is back of Wound badge black like the WW2 Wound Badges ?
Also 2 EK 1 , 1914 was in the lot + a Black Wound badge Army WW1 in black . One of EK 1 has the large ( Clamshell ) screwback . Look like senter is covered with copper over iron .

Lillegutt