Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By C.e. Juncker Hold and “PETSAMO”

and “PETSAMO”

Around the ridge of the epaulettes are countless golden fringes that are sew into the underside

disabled due to shrapnel wound in heel" He was a "single man but engaged to a girl in Vancouver who he intends to marry on return to Canada" and that he "finds his present job in charge of (the) kitchen to be too tiring on his legs"

also engraved with the Abteilung number 7

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By C.e. Juncker Hold and “PETSAMO”(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). 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, around a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics