Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Rudolf Souval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac indicating that Schafroth has volunteered

indicating that Schafroth has volunteered for a minimum of four years of service with the Kriegsmarine

with the name on the scroll inscribed in red "Rifleman Albert Seaman / Rifle Brigade"

while the reverse depicts a two-masted sailing ship cutting through waves

Over the next three months the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade would experience the heaviest shelling and mortaring of any period that it spent in the front lines

Footnote: Valentin Reichling was born on September 24

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Rudolf Souval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac indicating that Schafroth has volunteered(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). 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 destroyer cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and elongated vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from an