Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victory’s Badge, Bronze Grade with Award Document, by A.G. Tham GTRexclude 29th Infantry Battalion was Killed

29th Infantry Battalion was Killed in Action during the Battle of Hill 70 on August 21

accompanied by correlating stick pin

maker marked and numbered (4)

Hofmann was released from captivity in 1947

the obverse medallion presents a Wendish crown on a rich blue enamelled field

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victory’s Badge, Bronze Grade with Award Document, by A.G. Tham GTRexclude 29th Infantry Battalion was Killed(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939, mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a central white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel bearing an enameled HJ insignia, flanked by a date of 1939 and topped by an inscription of KRIEGSSIEGER, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker