Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Rare and Mint Set of Chaplain Collar Tabs, Early Issue Hold Boatswain's Mate First Class Donald

Boatswain's Mate First Class Donald Owen Smith was initially declared "Missing in Action" on October 11

in a suicide attack

constructed of heavy pressed cardstock with a red lightly textured faux leather (leatherette) exterior

making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war

suspended from a pinback hanger inscribed "MASSACHUSETTS")

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Rare and Mint Set of Chaplain Collar Tabs, Early Issue Hold Boatswain's Mate First Class Donald(Kriegsmarine Kragenspiegel fr einen Kriegspfarrer). A matching set of Kriegsmarine Chaplain collar tabs, each constructed of black wool with a buckram core, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, and bearing a central hand embroidered silver aluminum wire Latin Cross situated within semi oval oak leaf wreath of identical construction, both unmarked and measuring 45 mm (w) x 60 mm (l), a scarce example of an early and unissued