Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle GTRexclude with Cruz De Guerra buckle

with Cruz De Guerra buckle

Footnote: Sydney Alfred Manning enlisted in 2/13th Australian Field Company on May 6

Footnote: This medal was a reward to those who had served in the underground movement

edge worn making initials illegible

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle GTRexclude with Cruz De Guerra buckle(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offizier). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of a finely detailed Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreathed, marked M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 94 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.