Germany, Hj. A 1944 National Trade Competition Regional Victor’s Badge, By Gustav Brehmer Newly Listed chipped enamels and bent pinback

chipped enamels and bent pinback catch assembly

Military Order of Saint Hermenegildo

inscribed in Gothic text " "U 53" glücklich zurückgekehrt

he was admitted to hospital in Boulogne after having been "gassed severe"

Germany, Hj. A 1944 National Trade Competition Regional Victor’s Badge, By Gustav Brehmer Newly Listed chipped enamels and bent pinback(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of silvered zink with multi coloured enamels and paint, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, around a white painted disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, in turn bearing a HJ insignia, topped by an inscription of GAUSIEGER, flanked by a date of 1944, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked G.