Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant visually-hidden gold wound badge

gold wound badge

Footnote: James Wilson was born in Glasgow Scotland in 1888 and was working as a Logger in British Columbia when he enlisted in March 1916

an Order of the Patriotic War

movement untouched

the reverse bearing an indiscernible maker’s logo

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant visually-hidden gold wound badge(Kriegsabzeichen fr den Kstenartillerie). 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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating