Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Adolf Scholze Newly Listed as a graduates of the

as a graduates of the University of Manitoba Department of Engineering and acknowledging their enlistment for overseas service and that they were currently attending officers' training courses)

featuring the second pattern emblem centred on a circular pebbled field

Footnote:Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken was born on June 25

possibly having been wounded and issued another service number (7939)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Adolf Scholze Newly Listed as a graduates of the(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). 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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a