Germany, Luftwaffe. A Marksmanship Lanyard Auction one of 155 lives lost

one of 155 lives lost when the converted ferry to minesweeper H

Kent (1907

Wound Badge Black Grade

Justinian Seredi

Naming is engraved in italic running script on the IGSM

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Marksmanship Lanyard Auction one of 155 lives lost(Luftwaffen Schtzenschnur). Constructed of thick, twisted, interwoven alternating bright silver bullion and bluish gray embroidery, braided, head of the lanyard with a 40 mm (w) x 49 mm (h) silvered zink badge displaying the Luftwaffe eagle, its talons gripping a swastika, the eagle framed by a wreath of oak leaves, large silver bullion adjustment knots at either end of the braiding, with a smaller silver bullion knot on the suspension loop, Luftwaffe