Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Newly Listed First War Pair to Pioneer

First War Pair to Pioneer Thomas R

and is free from smudges or blemishes of any kind

stamped with a cherry blossom in black ink

worn by Lieutenant

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Newly Listed First War Pair to Pioneer(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). 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, surrounding a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the