Germany, HJ. A Leader’s Sports Badge, Gustav Brehmer Archive (SA Gruppenaufmarsch Dresden Medaille)

(SA Gruppenaufmarsch Dresden Medaille)

Four weeks after his hospital discharge

A wartime signed photo of U-Boat ace Korvettenkapitän Jost Metzler

The regiment stayed in South Africa throughout the hostilities

Germany, HJ. A Leader’s Sports Badge, Gustav Brehmer Archive (SA Gruppenaufmarsch Dresden Medaille)(Fhrer Sportabzeichen der HJ). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a black enameled disc, overlaid by a Tyr rune bearing a mobile swastika, in turn situated within a ring bearing an inscription of FR LEISTUNG IN DER H. J. (FOR MERIT IN THE H. J.), the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, stamped with an award number of 6471, also