Grenadier Replacement Battalions 81
high quality badge by the scarce maker
He was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal by General Order 9 in 1902 and awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration by General Order 157 in 1908
worn on ribbon with MID device
Andrew Christian Zabriskie died in Barrytown
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Newly Listed Grenadier Replacement Battalions 81(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika with cut out arms, overlaid by a central U Boat situated on a hollow void, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by