Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Rudolf Souval United Republic of dressed in his frock coat

dressed in his frock coat and bearing the famous bicorn hat

Instituted in 1942

On the 9th of November 1938 he was made Troop Leader of the same group

the reverse bearing an issue number of “64495”

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Rudolf Souval United Republic of dressed in his frock coat(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 style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting around wire catch emanating from a circular plate, maker marked with the logo of Rudolf Souval, Vienna,