Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Republic of Carleton and York Regiment

Carleton and York Regiment

This type of cloth badge /insignia was worn for instance by the members of the 369

the Order was to be awarded to those Greek citizens who partook in the War of Independence

reverse inscribed “R

die-struck

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Republic of Carleton and York Regiment(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). 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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular base, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker