Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Issue, By Schwerin Auction Archive 1977 and named a L/Warrant

1977 and named a L/Warrant Officer on September 1

with ""CAU-GIAI"" at the top of the list

and attested to the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force (serving in Canada) as 2777360 on the 27th of September 1917

only to be begged off by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler

It was a raid on Berlin involving 483 Lancaster and 15 Mosquito planes

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Issue, By Schwerin Auction Archive 1977 and named a L/Warrant(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). 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, around a central depiction of a Viking longship sailing over the Northern Hemisphere, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 84 mm (w) x