Germany, Kriegsmarine. An E-Boat Badge, Type I, By Georg Schwerin GTRexclude hand embroidered in gilded flat

hand embroidered in gilded flat wire on Luftwaffe colored gray thick wool

49 mm x 50

becoming an Able Seaman on January 9

plunging him into the water where it was twenty-five feet deep

then transferred to the City of London Military Hospital

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An E-Boat Badge, Type I, By Georg Schwerin GTRexclude hand embroidered in gilded flatA textbook early manufacture Kriegsmarine Schnellboot Kriegsabzeichen in silvered and gilded tombac; the obverse constructed of a gilded oak leaf wreath with a national eagle with spread out wings on the top clutching a mobile swastika, and a ribbon on the bottom, with an E Boat cutting through a series of waves (of note are the trademark first pattern waves), extending past the border of the badge; the reverse plain, with a vertical needle style