Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant Archive then invalided to England aboard

then invalided to England aboard the Hospital Ship Princess Elizabeth on the 5th and admitted to the Hyde Park Section at the 4th Southern General Hospital at Plymouth on the 6th

His promotion to Major followed in 1864

while the SA insignia exhibits light contact and silvering wear

He studied German linguistics

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant Archive then invalided to England aboard(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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a documented