Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge by Richard Simm & Söhne, Variant #2 visually-hidden Wireless Operator

Wireless Operator

of which he had been Department Commander for the last four years of his life

Temporary Lieutenant Vernon Russell Davies

the obverse trimmed along both the top and bottom edges with silver aluminum wire tresses

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge by Richard Simm & Söhne, Variant #2 visually-hidden Wireless Operator(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge, a pointy vertical pinback, and a broad rightward opening catch soldered onto a plate, marked R. S. & S for manufacture by