Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Above average ablility

Above average ablility

each on a black wool base

both screwposts intact

Footnote: 202018 Able Seaman Thomas Henry Mizen was born on January 25

constructed of an aluminum alloy

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Above average ablility(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked