Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle GTRexclude Footnote: Sydney Alfred Manning enlisted

Footnote: Sydney Alfred Manning enlisted in 2/13th Australian Field Company on May 6

serving as an Independent Member from Huon

in white metal and enamels

he persuaded his superiors he needed to get up to date on the latest combat techniques in France and he was granted a ten-day roving commission in France

but there are some small cuts in the cufftitle

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle GTRexclude Footnote: Sydney Alfred Manning enlisted(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offizier). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of a finely detailed Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreathed, marked M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 94 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.