Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By Schwerin Hold with ribbon button

with ribbon button

Hughes served overseas as a Gunner in the Crimea for two years and one month

and the shamrock shaped ends have three raised details

constructed of “Flaschengrün” bottle green wool

the 53rd Field Artillery Brigade (107th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By Schwerin Hold with ribbon button(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Re Issued on 3 October 1939 by Karl Dnitz. (1939 1945 Issue). Constructed of gilt tombak in the shape of a horizontally oriented oval laurel wreath, with a national eagle placed on top of the badge clutching a mobile swastika, and with a submarine superimposed in the center of the badge, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of