Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Auction Archive both he and his father

both he and his father participated in the Battle at Queenston Heights in 1812 as part of the Dragoons

Footnote: The Medal was instituted by Victor Emmanuel II to commemorate the Crimea War and to reward all Sardinian participants of the war who had rendered active service between 1855-1856

it didn't take much of a mathematician to figure there was somebody else out there

where he scouted for German vessels

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Auction Archive both he and his father(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). 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, around a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked