Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variant I, by Wilhelm Hobacher consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Was in hospital 10 days

Was in hospital 10 days (#1 C

maker marked "МОНЕТНЫЙ ДВОР" (Monetny Dvor) and number engraved "1031740" on the reverse

He was at Bovington Camp when he was struck off strength to Canada on May 18

but it was increasingly irrelevant

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variant I, by Wilhelm Hobacher consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Was in hospital 10 days(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch, U Boot Jagd, und Sicherungsverbnde). Instituted August 31st, 1940. (Variant I mid to late war manufacture) Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse with an oval oak wreath and a central area depicting a sea mine exploding in wavy water, and a national eagle with open wings clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse plain, with a barrel hinge, a vertical banjo style pinback, and a flat wire catch on a small