Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold This type of the cross

This type of the cross was issued very early and probably less then few hundreds were awarded

ADC went on to become Commandant of the Queen'sOwn Rifles for three years

and describes the requirements and conditions of technical trials and troop trials which inevitably played an important part in the conception of each new design

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Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold This type of the cross(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger 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, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire