Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer United Republic of one to the left index

one to the left index finger on 14 July

DIXON JULY 2003

van Ryneveld became the commanding officer at Robert’s Heights (Thaba Tswane) and Commandant of the S

with some of the original paper backing preserved

having stated his birth year as two years earlier (1897 and not 1899)

Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer United Republic of one to the left index(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1938). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a central white enameled disc, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel bearing an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1938, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire