Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 3, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 17 x 23 cm

17 x 23 cm

each constructed of white wool with buckram cores and trimmed with unusual red cotton-blended piping

the finger gone from the second joint

he was admitted to the Canadian Military Hospital at Hastings on September 12

the left soldier with "1436" below

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 3, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 17 x 23 cm(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). 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 Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock