Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Newly Listed effective 1 April 1940

effective 1 April 1940

Footnote: 468 Bugler William Whiter is acknowledged as having been with the 1st Battalion

with all of its original bronze finish preserved

sixty-six destroyers

measuring 210 mm (w) x 294 mm (h)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Newly Listed effective 1 April 1940(Kriegsabzeichen der Marine Artillerie). 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 coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel inge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch,