Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold trimmed with fine twisted and

trimmed with fine twisted and rolled gold bullion wire piping

ADC went on to become Commandant of the Queen'sOwn Rifles for three years

both prongs fully intact (one previously repaired/replaced)

maker marked "V&J" (Villiers and Jackson)

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold trimmed with fine twisted and(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of bronze 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, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire