Gold and Black cloth Wound badges

[realone]

Yes a very good thread and info I didnt know about.

Greg

[Don D.]

I seem to remember that there was a period photo of one in wear posted several years back.

[Hans N]

@Ron: perhaps your right about the reverse. Some sort of stiffening agent is plausible but they are not stiff at all when having them in your hands. Some how i get the feeling that it´s based on starch. I have all 3 grades of which one comes through a friend that obtained it from a vet´s estate.

@Don: that picture would be very interesting to see!

[Ron P]

@Ron: perhaps your right about the reverse. Some sort of stiffening agent is plausible but they are not stiff at all when having them in your hands. Some how i get the feeling that it´s based on starch. I have all 3 grades of which one comes through a friend that obtained it from a vet´s estate.

@Don: that picture would be very interesting to see!

Hi Hans, I too believe it some sort of starch. After 60+ years, I am sure the starch has probably lost it's properties. Ron.

[Don D.]

@Don: that picture would be very interesting to see!

The search function may turn it up but it could be on the badges forum as I think it was before the wound badge forum was established.

Or perhaps in the paper/photos forum......

[Andreas Klein]

These has puzzled me and still do. Andreas you mention "massive versions" and so far i haven´t seen or heard of any official massive BWB´s...
"they weren´t for wear" you say and how do we explain the glue on the back of these cloths?

Hi Hans,

with "massive" i meant a real wound badge. We have something similiar on the documents sector. There is a award document to the IAB which could be turned into a real document afterwards.

I can't prove if those cloth wound badges are only some sort of placeholder for real ones - that's only my personal opinion based on the fact that the ones i could trace back to a vet were inside his Soldbuch.

Btw imo they are to thin to have in on a uniform - i don't think that they could survive some combat action.

[teryjaki]

Another Angle?

I thought i'd throw in that John Angolia's 1976 First Edition (Military Awards of the Third Reich) mentions this patch as mean't for the sport shirt. He goes no further on this other than to discuss the colors and materials. I'm not sure if this was speculation on his part or if his research took him to that conclusion, but in any case, I thought you would like to hear about that angle. Personally I don't know why you would want a WB on your sport shirt unless you are self-absorbed, but who knows? I wasn't living back then and maybe it was the thing to do? I personally like the "place card" theory; that it was a response to war material shortages. Regards

[infoleather]

I can not imagine the purpose of these badges plastic back "iron", especially the texture of the material of a given standard uniforms.