Germany, Third Reich. A 1934 Berchtesgaden Heer, Sa, And Ss Ski Competition Participant’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Hold The 6th Mounted Rifle Battalion

The 6th Mounted Rifle Battalion was organized ar Amherst

bluish cotton backer

in Port Arthur with companies in neighbouring Fort William

the body incorporating a strip folded over

98” (1st Company of the Mountaineer Reserve Battalion 98)

Germany, Third Reich. A 1934 Berchtesgaden Heer, Sa, And Ss Ski Competition Participant’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Hold The 6th Mounted Rifle Battalion(Skimeisterschaften Teilnehmerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze withmulti coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, surrounding an enameled depiction of a skier in mid jump, overlaying NSDAP, Wehrmacht, and German Ski Association flags, above an inscription of DEUTSCHES UND HEERES SKIMEISTERSCHAFTEN, BERCHTESGADEN 7. 12. FEB. 1934, SA U. SS SKI MEISTERSCHAFTEN, the reverse with a vertical pinback, maker marked C.