Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade Newly Listed bearing the RAD downward-pointing shovel

bearing the RAD downward-pointing shovel insignia with the numbers “353-7”

the Austrian heavy cavalry retained it for some campaigns as late as the 1780s

Widenmann became corps physician of the 5th Princely Army in the rank of Generalarzt (physician of General rank)

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Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade Newly Listed bearing the RAD downward-pointing shovel(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of patinated bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consists of a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a white enameled disc, bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER 1939 (DISTRICT CHAMPION 1939). It was marked, but the marking has been erased. The award, however,