Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant GTRexclude Footnote: This badge appears on

Footnote: This badge appears on page 223 of "Eagles Recalled" by Warren Carroll and comes from his personal collection

one small tear on the central fold mark

His wife was buried alongside him when she passed away in 2000

blue and white embroidery

at the age of 38 and is buried in Brown’s Road Military Cemetery

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant GTRexclude Footnote: This badge appears on(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). 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 a Viking longship sailing over the Northern Hemisphere, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but