Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer United Republic of the hanger demonstrates the loss

the hanger demonstrates the loss of most of the gilt finish to the metal fixtures

not general service) and C (home service (Canada only)) and declared "Medically unfit

then experienced "a sudden drop in temperature to 97 degrees" before his "heart petered out" and died at 5:20 am on February 17

the latter retaining an original brown leather strap embossed with an illegible maker’s mark circumscribing a date of “1940”

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer United Republic of the hanger demonstrates the loss(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and shorten banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, maker