Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Youth Badge, C.1940 Hold all with scalloped button down

all with scalloped button down flaps

whilst with a working party repairing wire entanglements in front of the trenches at Hill 60

Bischofswerda camp

Accompanied by a 70 mm x 188 mm card with "I

Hungary, Kingdom. A Levente Youth Badge, C.1940 Hold all with scalloped button down(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.