Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Archive (Waffen-SS Porträt mit Unterschrift)

(Waffen-SS Porträt mit Unterschrift)

3rd Class Cross with Swords (copper gilt

maker marked “Gürschner

He was admitted to hospital "sick" on July 7

his Brigade was re-designated 'D' Battery

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Archive (Waffen-SS Porträt mit Unterschrift)(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1938, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire