Wwii Army Racing Team Oap Badge - Third Class Badge certificate_of_authenticity complete with safety hook

complete with safety hook

and removed to be melted down at one point

and a few weeks later he was invalided home suffering from shell-shock

1947 as a Colonel

56mm (x87mm including crown suspension)

Wwii Army Racing Team Oap Badge - Third Class Badge certificate_of_authenticity complete with safety hookWWII Army Racing Team OAP Badge Third Class Badge, in bronze and enamels, 35 mm x 47 mm, pinback, with single small chip out of enamelled triangle, very fine. Rare. Footnote: The badge was created in the fall of 1940 by the OAP organization and awarded at the bequest and orders of the Minister of Defence, January 21, 1941. Units of sport date back to 1940 with the creation of a football (soccer) team, then a hockey team and other sports sections