Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Japanese-Made Auxiliary Cruiser Badge Of Oberbootsmann Karlheinz Cares GTRexclude on two places leather very

on two places leather very slightly lifted at the mountings (but present)

His service during the First World War is not known

Hamburg 11" and "GES

the attending physicians noted that "while on active service he sustained a penetrating wound of the right eyeball from a fragment of shrapnel for which he has undergone treatment for some months in France and England

it was also noted that he was "Making Slight Progress"

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Japanese-Made Auxiliary Cruiser Badge Of Oberbootsmann Karlheinz Cares GTRexclude on two places leather veryThe Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge comes directly from Cares family, accompanied by a wartime photo and copies of the pages of his Soldbuch. The badge is constructed of silver, obverse depicts central viking longship sailing over a map of the northern hemisphere, within an oval shaped oak leaf wreath, topped with German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, reverse with a wide barrel hinge and flat pinback meeting a round wire catch, marked on