Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Förster & Barth Hold MARINE CORPS" with brooch pinback)

MARINE CORPS" with brooch pinback)

"CANADA" clasp on its original ribbon

From 1915 to 1918

When he retired in 1939

she was used as a convoy escort on Gibraltar convoys

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Förster & Barth Hold MARINE CORPS" with brooch pinback)(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular chain wreath, with a central blockade runner cutting through waves, with the bow overlaid by a German national eagle in mid flight and clutching a swastika, the reverse with a raised crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth, Pforzheim, measuring