Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed a Canadian Women's Army Corps

a Canadian Women's Army Corps Jacket Patch (four-colour embroidery on chocolate brown wool

The decoration is on its period ribbon with a hook and eye and a rosette

Loadmaster Badge (in gilt metal with red and orange enamels

measuring 65 mm (w) x 130 mm (l) x 30 mm (h)

disembarking in Korea the next day

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed a Canadian Women's Army CorpsConstructed of bronze and enamels, depicting a coal worker holding a pneumatic hammer in one hand while wielding a flag bearing a profile of Stalin and Lenin looking left, the reverse with a threaded screw post and a non matching screw plate, unmarked, measuring 27. 11 mm (w) x 39. 9 mm (l), in fine condition.