Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin & Sohn GTRexclude the son of James Edward

the son of James Edward Hipkiss and Mary Elizabeth Wilkinson-Hipkiss-Cudahy

measures 220mm (w) x 320mm (h) x 25mm (d)

constructed of off-white paper stock with black ink

By the Fall of 1917

signing his second Attestation Paper (341949) with the 71st Infantry Battalion on August 8

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin & Sohn GTRexclude the son of James Edward(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). 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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a