Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Buy Now on blue Kriegsmarine cloth backing

on blue Kriegsmarine cloth backing (slightly damaged)

marked "REICHSVERBAND PFORZHEIM 37" on the reverse

After serving thirty-three months in France

Ontario when he signed his Attestation Paper (2327447) with the Cobourg Heavy Battery on June 1

listing his trade as Shoemaker

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Buy Now on blue Kriegsmarine cloth backing(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of silvered tombak 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, in turn defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, the eagle circumscribed by an inscription of GAUSIEGER (REGIONAL VICTOR) and a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical