Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons visually-hidden all opening with a horizontal

all opening with a horizontal flap with a reinforced buttonhole meeting a pebbled zink button

Bronze Bravery Medal

rejoined Plymouth command and was assigned to the newly formed 10th Destroyer Flotilla carrying out "Operation Hostile" (Minelaying) and "Operation Tunnel" (Patrol) missions off the coast of France

The last member of the Medici dynasty to be a leader of the order was Gian Gastone de Medici in 1737

Footnote: Arthur Henry Burne was born on July 22

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons visually-hidden all opening with a horizontal(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (mid to late war manufacture). A textbook example by this maker, 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, surrounding a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge, straight horizontal