Salut,
I am looking for information of the use and wear of this "Bretagne" badge. It does look like a civilian badge but the period iconography proves it was used as a tradition badge by the Kriegsmarine personel .
The badge is enameled and has no maker's marks. Type of construction does not indicate the country of origin.
You can see it worn here on an officer's schirmutze
and here worn by a U-Boot crew member on a side-cap in conjonction with the ship's emblem.
The insignia worn on the side cap seems to be exactly the same as this one.
It was found metal detecting by a friend on the location of a rubbish tip of a villa used by the 6 UBF as a resting place . It was found in the same layer as other KM related items.
You will notice that the insignia is blue on top with the main field in red.
However you can also find it with inverted colours, ie : main field in blue and top part in red
My 2 versions of the “Bretagne” insignia with a cigarette box . The one on the left seems to be similar top the one worn by the officer on his schirm .
The box has this vignette glued at the bottom - "Deutschland siegt an allen Fronten”
The badge is also found on this X’mas plate made for a aero-naval unit or base near Brest in Bretagne.
We initially thought that this badge was worn by U-Boot crews but this ceramic plate seems to imply that other units, maybe even land based were using its symbolic.
- Would it be that any KM personel of the Bretagne area could wear it ? The scarcity of original photos showing it worm make me doubt .
- So what units was it restricted to ?
- Were those badges made specially for the KM or were they civilian French "province" badge adopted by the KM ?
My friend and I would be very gratefull if one of you KM expert had a little more info on this badge or photos of it in wear in your archives.
Many thanks,
Cheriooooo,
yves
I am looking for information of the use and wear of this "Bretagne" badge. It does look like a civilian badge but the period iconography proves it was used as a tradition badge by the Kriegsmarine personel .
The badge is enameled and has no maker's marks. Type of construction does not indicate the country of origin.
You can see it worn here on an officer's schirmutze
and here worn by a U-Boot crew member on a side-cap in conjonction with the ship's emblem.
The insignia worn on the side cap seems to be exactly the same as this one.
It was found metal detecting by a friend on the location of a rubbish tip of a villa used by the 6 UBF as a resting place . It was found in the same layer as other KM related items.
You will notice that the insignia is blue on top with the main field in red.
However you can also find it with inverted colours, ie : main field in blue and top part in red
My 2 versions of the “Bretagne” insignia with a cigarette box . The one on the left seems to be similar top the one worn by the officer on his schirm .
The box has this vignette glued at the bottom - "Deutschland siegt an allen Fronten”
The badge is also found on this X’mas plate made for a aero-naval unit or base near Brest in Bretagne.
We initially thought that this badge was worn by U-Boot crews but this ceramic plate seems to imply that other units, maybe even land based were using its symbolic.
- Would it be that any KM personel of the Bretagne area could wear it ? The scarcity of original photos showing it worm make me doubt .
- So what units was it restricted to ?
- Were those badges made specially for the KM or were they civilian French "province" badge adopted by the KM ?
My friend and I would be very gratefull if one of you KM expert had a little more info on this badge or photos of it in wear in your archives.
Many thanks,
Cheriooooo,
yves
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