Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden This is a well preserved

This is a well preserved Austrian Gendarmerie/Police cap in the style of the well-known M43 cap

He was hospitalized for various ailments throughout his military service

Instituted 27 December 1907 by Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Footnote: Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden This is a well preserved(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). 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 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker