Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 1, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 27 mm x 92 mm)

27 mm x 92 mm)

He served on the Western Front in the campaign against France

all affixed to a 45 mm-long zink bar with a horizontal pinback and black wool reverse liner

A Red Cross Medal 3rd Class

its Long Service Medal and the Shanghai Municipal Council Emergency Medal of 1937 on page 119

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 1, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 27 mm x 92 mm)(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 86 mm