Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic including a War Merit Cross

including a War Merit Cross II Class with Swords constructed of bronze

1916 and returned to duty five days later on the 10th

the Medical Board there recommending that Allen be invalided to Canada

a scarce late-war example in overall very fine condition

overlaid by an intricate HJ insignia executed in multi-coloured hand-embroidered beads

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic including a War Merit Cross(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, 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, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, using the latters Variation 2 design, measuring 44. 0 mm (w) x 57. 1 mm (h), weighing 32.