Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Unmarked Variation 1 Example, by Funcke & Brüninghaus Hold 72nd Seaforth Highlanders Cadet's Beret

72nd Seaforth Highlanders Cadet's Beret Badge

including a Soviet Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War

Footnote: The Order of Military Merit was instituted on October 18

measuring approximately 100 mm in width x 295 mm in length x 260 mm in height each

to his accolades but he became increasingly despondent with mounting red-tape and pen-pushers - it was said he ‘obeyed only the rules he agreed with’

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Unmarked Variation 1 Example, by Funcke & Brüninghaus Hold 72nd Seaforth Highlanders Cadet's Beret(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, 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, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering magnetic metal pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of