Russia, Imperial. An Order Of St. Anne, 4Th Class Badge Hold A Cloth Kriegsmarine Coastal Artillery

A Cloth Kriegsmarine Coastal Artillery Patch - Machine embroidered yellow wool threading on an oval navy blue wool base

as he was never in France during the war

The battery left Mushroom Valley on November 15th and arrived in Bloemfontein by rail on the 18th

three with handwritten messages and postmarked

Russia, Imperial. An Order Of St. Anne, 4Th Class Badge Hold A Cloth Kriegsmarine Coastal ArtilleryIn bronze gilt with red enamels, measuring 21. 2 mm (w) x 30. 2 mm (h), intact screwpost with securing nut, intact enamels, extremely fine. Footnote: The Order of Saint Anne was established as a Holstein ducal and then Russian imperial order of chivalry established by Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein Gottorp, on February 14, 1735, in honour of his wife Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great of Russia. The motto of the Order is "Amantibus