Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Buy Now Wickenden was named Acting Lance

Wickenden was named Acting Lance Corporal on April 3

complete with the original RZM tag attached to it

and some discolouration

then to the Reserve Unit Military Hospital at Shorecliffe on January 11

and include some running marks and verdigris to the blade

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Förster & Barth Buy Now Wickenden was named Acting Lance(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 pinback, the latter maker marked with LDO code