Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Rare U-Boat War Badge, By Paul Maybauer United Republic of 1st Class for Forty Years'

1st Class for Forty Years' Service (gold-coloured gilt on metal and black enamels

Grave Reference: Plot 203

Lamond Fils on the inside of the ring and on the reverse of the insignia

consisting of a four and twelve year long service decoration

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Rare U-Boat War Badge, By Paul Maybauer United Republic of 1st Class for Forty Years'(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat superimposed over a hollow void the reverse with a barrel hinge and narrow vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Pau Meybauer, Berlin, measuring 47. 72 mm (w) x 38. 86 mm