Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Newly Listed bearing a hand-etched owner’s surname

bearing a hand-etched owner’s surname of “BECKER”

Grenadier Replacement Battalions 81

worn on ribbon with MID device

He was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal by General Order 9 in 1902 and awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration by General Order 157 in 1908

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Newly Listed bearing a hand-etched owner’s surname(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