Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 1935 Kriegsmarine Kiel Swimming Competition First Place Medal Auction he was awarded the United

he was awarded the United Nations Emergency Force Medal on August 27

He was then posted to the Australian Army Medical Corps at the Sydney Showgrounds

The obverse features an acid-etched inscription of “MEINE EHRE HEIßT TREUE” (“MY HONOUR IS LOYALTY”) in Fraktur script

this uncleaned original badge shows wear and some aging from the early years of World War I

broke this deadlock with a coup d'état

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 1935 Kriegsmarine Kiel Swimming Competition First Place Medal Auction he was awarded the United(Kriegsmarine Medaille). Constructed of bronzed feinzink with multi coloured enamels, the obverse with a central raised inscription of MARINEMEISTERSCHAFTEN KIEL JUNI 1935 with an etched inscription of 200 M. BRUSTSCHWIMMEN I, above a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, topped by a naval ensign, unmarked, measuring 82 mm in diameter, in near extremely fine condition.