Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Adolf Scholze GTRexclude 139 mm x 179 mm)

139 mm x 179 mm)

on a loop for suspension (marked but illegible)

Sarah Anne Yabsley and Lillian Blanche Yabsley

this time to the 38th Battalion in the French theatre on August 20th

reverse presents vertical pinback

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Adolf Scholze GTRexclude 139 mm x 179 mm)(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). 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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a