Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)

LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)

hunt allied U-boats along the coast

Private William Reader

but kept in pocket)

number 152615 and credited with having served in Canada

Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)(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