Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Italian Commander’s Tank Badge Auction Archive Ings was promoted to a

Ings was promoted to a Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed to be the first Commanding Officer of the 105th Infantry Battalion

(Reich Forstdienst Kragenspiegel)

reverse with a coat-of-arms and inscribed "A

in Aug 1943

Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Italian Commander’s Tank Badge Auction Archive Ings was promoted to aIn bronze gilt with red and black enamels, illustrating a dragon hovering over a tank, surrounded by an open ended wreath of oak leaves, inscribed "FERREA MOLE FERREO CVORE" (Iron Heart, Iron Mole), measuring 46. 5 mm (w) x 31. 5 mm (h), slide locking horizontal pinback, intact enamels, in its original glassine package of issue, mint.