Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 3, by Wilhelm Deumer Auction with multiple cracks and tears

with multiple cracks and tears in the sweatband

excellent medical and surgical care was provided to the sick and wounded Marines and other United States personnel

and the Heavy Machine Guns 34 and 42

He returned to France on 8 Apr 1918 with 18 DAC attached to A/82nd Brigade RFA

Measuring 46 mm (w) x 115 mm (l)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 3, by Wilhelm Deumer Auction with multiple cracks and tears(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock