Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Field Marshal G

Field Marshal G

Both the visor and the neck guard have brown vulcanfibre uppers

Marguerite Bay

He returned overseas as a reinforcement on August 25

a 16 December 1928 edition of the Jungstahlhelm’s official newspaper

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Field Marshal G(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika with cut out arms, overlaid by a central U Boat situated on a hollow void, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by