Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine Destroyer Badge & Award Document Signed, by Vizeadmiral Leo Kreisch Archive issued in Berlin on 1

issued in Berlin on 1 May 1942

the Order was replaced by the Grand Order of the Throne

A Wachau 1938 Tinnie

he returned to Canada and was taken on strength at S-8 Canadian Army Training Centre in Hamilton

Miniature (bronze

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine Destroyer Badge & Award Document Signed, by Vizeadmiral Leo Kreisch Archive issued in Berlin on 1A Kriegsmarine Destroyer Badge. (Zerstrerabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded and silvered zinc, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbons and topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central destroyer cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with plain, with a repaired vertical