Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Board Cap for Female Personnel, Kiel Depot Issue, c. 1941 Newly Listed MARCH 1939” (“TO COMMEMORATE THE

MARCH 1939” (“TO COMMEMORATE THE RETURN OF MEMEL REGION 22 MARCH 1939”)

with sixty voided areas

the obverse bearing a silver-grey machine-embroidered Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

On return to England was admitted to hospital in Feb

indicating a rank of Gefreiter

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Board Cap for Female Personnel, Kiel Depot Issue, c. 1941 Newly Listed MARCH 1939” (“TO COMMEMORATE THE(Kriegsmarine blaues Schiffchen fr Nachrichtenhelferinnen). An extremely well preserved Kriegsmarine board cap for female personnel, constructed of dark navy blue wool. The cap is fully surrounded by fold down side walls which gently slope downward toward the front, and which are trimmed along the edge with golden yellow piping. Stitched onto the lower peak is an insignia consisting of a dark blue rayon backer bearing a machine embroidered golden