Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons Archive The owner is Adolf Gerlach

The owner is Adolf Gerlach

on period faded green ribbon

naming on BWM is inverted with second initial on "J" incorrect (should be "G")

where he would recuperate for the next month

and sheaf of wheat

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons Archive The owner is Adolf Gerlach(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (mid to late war manufacture). A textbook example by this maker, 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 depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge, straight horizontal