Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth GTRexclude 1898 and the announcement appearing

1898 and the announcement appearing in the London Gazette 27012 of Friday

(DAF = Deutsche Arbeitsfront): In stamped pebbled aluminum

Lüdenscheid) and marked with the stylized Assmann "A" above

Naming is officialy impressed

1944 Gehlken joined the 2nd Company of Landesschützen Training Battalion I/10 in Wolterdingen

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth GTRexclude 1898 and the announcement appearing(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth, Pforzheim,