Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Uniform Breast Eagle Archive including Es wollt ein Mädchen

including Es wollt ein Mädchen früh aufteh’n (A Girl Wants to Get Up Early)

presenting an enameled Sacred Heart of Christ on the 12 o’clock arm

why should it be restricted to men who left Australia or New Zealand before the end of 1914

the son of John Bruford and Ann Bruford (nee Jones)

he achieved the highest rank he would ever hold

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Uniform Breast Eagle Archive including Es wollt ein Mädchen(Kriegsmarine Brustadler). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of an elongated Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreathed, marked M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 95 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.