Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed and its fall under Cetshwayo

and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879

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

with fingermarks evident on the inside covers

with some discolouration evident

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed and its fall under CetshwayoConstructed 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.