Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, by Rudolf Souval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac including one depicting SS-Unterscharführer Ernst

including one depicting SS-Unterscharführer Ernst Barkmann

Constructed of silvered tombac with black and red enamels

the attending physician noted that the wound had "not healed" and designated him for "duty only"

bordered by a ring of red-enamel bearing the inscription EIN GOTT EIN RECHT EINE WAHRHEIT (ONE GOD ONE RIGHT ONE TRUTH)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, by Rudolf Souval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac including one depicting SS-Unterscharführer Ernst(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, overlaying a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, emanating from oval guidelines,