Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin & Sohn GTRexclude By the Fall of 1917

By the Fall of 1917

he served as a platoon leader of a machine gun company in the rank of Lieutenant

In the same year that their daughter Nannette-Dorothea was born

constructed of off-white paper stock with black ink

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin & Sohn GTRexclude By the Fall of 1917(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). 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, around a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a