page 4335 and his citation appearing in the Second Supplement to the London Gazette 31680
returning to Germany in early 1951
(Orden de Francisco de Miranda)
to reward officers and men serving in Spanish West Africa during the Ifni War of 1957-1958 when Moroccan rebels and Sahrawi tribesmen launched a series of armed raids
maker marked “ Hoffstätter
Germany, Hj. A 1938 Regional Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Gustav Brehmer Hold page 4335 and his citation(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, around a white enameled disc bearing an inscription of KREISSIEGER 1938 (REGIONAL VICTOR 1938), overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, the latter bearing an enameled HJ insignia, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker