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

LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)

number 152615 and credited with having served in Canada

Private William Reader

hunt allied U-boats along the coast

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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