Errata.

When I started this "blog" I had intentions of updating it on a regular basis. At least as regularly as I could. Now, life had other ideas and intervened, but after this prolonged hiatus I am know glad to say that I am back! And the hiatus has not been totally in vain. A few things has surfaced. One of which is the following:

In the "What I knew then -and what I know now" post I made a reference to -and posted a photograph of- OFw H-E Brenger's Verwundetabzeichen in Silber. This was wrong. It is not a "Wound Bagde". As so clairly pointed out by WASt, and myself for that matter, my grandfather was not wounded until July 1944. The photograph is taken in ca 1941/42 so that alone is evidence enough. What I did was to fall prey to an old family "myth"; that the reason my grandfather came to meet my Finnish grandmother was due to being "wounded in battle and transfered to a military hospital in Finland" -a myth I would like to believe to be utterly debunked by now. But having been told the above "myth" from an early age I just assumed that it was a Verwundetabzeichen. And, as we all know, assumption is the mother of all... And for that matter it is also more likely that when he was wounded in 1944 he recieved the Verwundetabzeichen in Schwartz -the first grade of the wound badge.

So, what is it then? There is the slight possibility that it is the DRL Sportsabzeichen; the sports badge awarded for passing various physical tests. There is also the slight possibility that the medal on my grandfather's uniform is something entirely different, but at this point in time I do not want to say anything definite on that. Not until I have checked a few available avenues more thoroughly; as well as consulted a few authorities on the subject at hand.

My hat is off for Björn Leo from Military Antiques Stockholm for correcting me and pointing me in the right direction though.