Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Province of China a Royal Air Force (Officers)

a Royal Air Force (Officers) Central Flying School

NAVAL CAMPAIGN WEST INDIES 1898

Footnote: Sydney Howard Thornton was born on June 6

near Osijek

the wreckage lying intact in about 213 feet of water in the Sōya (La Pérouse) Strait

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Province of China a Royal Air Force (Officers)(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular chain link wrath, surrounding a central depiction of a blockade runner cutting through waves and breaking the chain, with its bow overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika in mid flight and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked