Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: Richard Somerville Sikes was

Footnote: Richard Somerville Sikes was born on May 28

It measures 110 mm (w) x 86 mm (l) x 65 mm (h) and is in an overall extremely fine condition

5 Air Division in Vancouver on August 9

maker marked with the stylized logo of “Hermann Aurich of Dresden” and marked “Ges

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: Richard Somerville Sikes was(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked