Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Disputed Deumer Variant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac but his ship was lost

but his ship was lost on the Dutch coast

weighing 11 g

His personal effects were returned to his mother from the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot in Kansas City

measuring 136 mm (w) x 84 mm (h)

A Sea Gallanty Medal - Vctoria small

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Disputed Deumer Variant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac but his ship was lost(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 block hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve