Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed and with a crescent moon

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

Instituted 1823

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

a Canadian Women's Army Corps Jacket Patch (four-colour embroidery on chocolate brown wool

Loadmaster Badge (in gilt metal with red and orange enamels

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed and with a crescent moonConstructed 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.