Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold Private William Reader

Private William Reader

but kept in pocket)

1945) below

LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)

number 152615 and credited with having served in Canada

Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold Private William Reader(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, around a white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, in turn bearing a HJ insignia, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER, flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened wire catch, maker marked