Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer United Republic of 36 mm x 45

36 mm x 45

to operations conducted in the presence of an armed enemy

Captain Henderson was admitted to Queen Alexandra Military Hospital

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

with some of the original paper backing preserved

Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer United Republic of 36 mm x 45(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