Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat Badge, By Funcke & Brüninghaus GTRexclude Royal New Zealand Army Medical

Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps

48 mm x 75 mm inclusive of its crown suspension

at the age 19

the acknowledgement of the ceremony documented in The Northern Advance of Thursday

circumscribed with “DEN 1 JANUAR 1842” bordered with a wreath of oak and laurel leaves tied with a ribbon at the bottom

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat Badge, By Funcke & Brüninghaus GTRexclude Royal New Zealand Army Medical(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 Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat on a hollow background, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 56 for Funcke & Brninghaus, Ldenscheid, measuring 49. 12 mm (w) x 40. 64 mm (h),