Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle GTRexclude with Cruz De Guerra buckle

with Cruz De Guerra buckle

Footnote: Sydney Alfred Manning enlisted in 2/13th Australian Field Company on May 6

he persuaded his superiors he needed to get up to date on the latest combat techniques in France and he was granted a ten-day roving commission in France

setting up the Airborne Forces Depot and Battle School in Derbyshire in April 1942

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle GTRexclude with Cruz De Guerra buckle(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offizier). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of a finely detailed Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreathed, marked M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 94 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.