Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed Loadmaster Badge (in gilt metal

Loadmaster Badge (in gilt metal with red and orange enamels

with fingermarks evident on the inside covers

and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879

Instituted 1823

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

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed Loadmaster Badge (in gilt metalConstructed 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.