Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Youth Badge, C.1940 Newly Listed award loops

award loops

We shall sorely miss his helping hand in these trying times

Since its inception

a silver cross

He volunteered for military service in the Luftwaffe in 1939 where he was posted to the 51st Jagdgeschwader

Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Youth Badge, C.1940 Newly Listed award loops(Leventeszervezetek). Instituted in 1921. In die stamped zinc alloy, measuring 38. 7 mm (w) x 58. 3 mm (h), with three pairs of die holes, one pair each located at the three points of the shield, the badge designed to be worn on the shoulder of the uniform, very light oxidation evident on the reverse, extremely fine. Footnote: Levente Associations were paramilitary youth organizations in Hungary in the interwar period and during the Second World War.