Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Förster & Barth Hold 8 mm each)

8 mm each)

silvered Clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class 1939 on the ribbon)

5 mm (w) x 158 mm (h) x 39 mm (d)

bronze gilt or silvered metal

when all departments in the Montreal hospitals were depleted

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Förster & Barth Hold 8 mm each)(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). 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 Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with a Viking longship sailing over a depiction of the North Atlantic and Northern Europe, the reverse with a central rivet securing the obverse globe in place, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat