Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed he left for the 1st

he left for the 1st Canadian Entrenching Battalion on the 29th

Loadmaster Badge (in gilt metal with red and orange enamels

and with a crescent moon and star in-between each arm

disembarking in Korea the next day

measuring 65 mm (w) x 130 mm (l) x 30 mm (h)

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed he left for the 1stConstructed of bronze and enamels, depicting a coal worker holding a pneumatic hammer in one hand while wielding a flag bearing a profile of Stalin and Lenin looking left, the reverse with a threaded screw post and a non matching screw plate, unmarked, measuring 27. 11 mm (w) x 39. 9 mm (l), in fine condition.