In response to my post about the collection at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, 'Mr Steve' mentioned that he thought he had a U-boat War badge somewhere in his treasure box, where ever that was.
http://jjwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/portsmouth-2017-royal-navy-submarine.html
Well, having rummaged high and low, he found it!
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| This U-Boat crew member can be seen wearing his U-Boat War badge, bottom right |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat_War_Badge
Thanks for sharing Steve.
It looks like a reproduction to me. I've seen an original and the casting was much crisper, with wear to the high points of the plating (as you would expect after 70 odd years).
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I agree its a tricky one,Unfortunately I don't know where my Uncle got it from as he just handed over what he had collected along with an Iron cross ribbon so as far as I know he could well have swapped them with his mates or just as easily won them at cards.
ReplyDeleteOnly being 11 or 12 at the time I didn't ask a lot of questions especially as we weren't allowed to discuss the war with him.