Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer certificate_of_authenticity Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Overall near very fine condition

this airman was the rear gunner of an aircraft engaged on a reconnaissance flight over the Tunisian Road

He served on both the Eastern and Western Fronts of the First World War

Somaliland in 1924 and attended an elephant shoot in Africa in June 1924

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer certificate_of_authenticity Vancouver Island(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). 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 defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by a silvered inscription of GAUSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a