Badges "Ready For Labour And Defence Of The Homeland".

[Taz]

Eddie,

Great !! They finally seem to be sport related :p ... even if the wording could obviously be misleading :rolleyes: .

Cheers.

Ch.

'tis a bit misleading sometimes. These badges actually resemble closely the WWII Third Reich Sport awards. And the idea came from the Soviet Sport award system apparently, ready for .... etc.

Here is the early version of these Sport badges. This one is the adults 1st Class from 1951-52

"bereit zur Arbeit und zur Verteidigung des friedens" Instituted in 1950/51.

And the reverse of a different version with s/n.

Eddie.