Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Miniature Officer’s Dress Dagger visually-hidden Battery for RQD&D in April

Battery for RQD&D in April 1943 at Sydney

Each tab measures 40 mm (w) x 75 mm (l)

The following morning (27th) HMS King George V and HMS Rodney arrived and engaged the Bismarck from approximately 16

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with handwritten dates of death applied to the obverse in each in blue ink

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Miniature Officer’s Dress Dagger visually-hidden Battery for RQD&D in April(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offiziere, Miniatur). A well preserved miniature Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 20 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 14 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip (and with an additional stem that continues into the hilt). The blade is unmarked and sits securely within a multi piece hilt which features a gilded bronze crossguard bearing double sided central