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

The decoration is on its period ribbon with a hook and eye and a rosette

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

with some discolouration evident

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.