United Kingdom. A Victory Medal, HMS Good Hope, Battle of Coronel, Chile KIA Newly Listed A grouping of three DAF

A grouping of three DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront/German Labour Front) membership badges and stickpins

he was hospitalized twice: from October 14th to the 18th and from November 30th to December 3rd

Both are of fine quality

a Winterhilfswerk campaign donor’s badge

the reverse bearing a raised inscription of “FÜR ARBEIT ZUM SCHÜTZE DEUTSCHLANDS” (“FOR WORK IN THE DEFENCE OF GERMANY”)

United Kingdom. A Victory Medal, HMS Good Hope, Battle of Coronel, Chile KIA Newly Listed A grouping of three DAFVictory Medal. (236732. A. J. MERRITT. A. B. R. N.) Naming is impressed, fine. Footnote: Able Seaman Albert John Merritt, son of George and Sarah Merritt, of 24, Valnay St., Tooting, London. Merritt was serving aboard HMS Good Hope, a Drake class armored cruiser, that served as the flagship for Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock during the early days of World War I. She was sunk with all hands on November 1, 1914, during the Battle of Coronel off