Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity with a white cotton circle

with a white cotton circle with a black printed swastika sewn onto the obverse

A Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal to the Sault Ste

surrounded by the inscription "WILLIAM THE FOURTH CROWNED SEP:8 1831" and engraver marked "W

April 1940

a 53-year-old Army Headquarters staff officer from Melbourne

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity with a white cotton circle(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch, U Boot Jagd, und Sicherungsverbnde). Instituted on 31 August 1940 by Supreme Commander Erich Raeder. Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the Minesweeper War Badge consists of a silvered, oval oak leaf wreath, each side having an outer margin of seven oak leaves pointing upward, at the bottom is a stylized bow holding the wreath together, within the lower third of the wreath lies a calm water surface with narrowly