Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Uniform Breast Eagle Hold Footnote: The Merchant Service Medal

Footnote: The Merchant Service Medal was awarded to those who served in the Irish Merchant Navy during the Emergency period

constructed of an aluminum frame with a silver aluminum finish

Constructed of tan-coloured

he became a voluntary emergency worker for the military

in the bridgehead beyond the Irrawaddy during the advance on Mandalay

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Uniform Breast Eagle Hold Footnote: The Merchant Service Medal(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offiziere). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an integral hinge and flattened horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreath, marked with an M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 95 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), with only slight loss of finish evident to high contact points, in extremely