Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive arriving at Hilo

arriving at Hilo

The tunic has a brown cotton strap in the collar for hanging the tunic on a hook and measures 440 mm across the shoulders and 590 mm in length overall

A “Deutsches Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen”

above an inscription of “SS

his unit went into action at St Julien and "when charging enemy was struck by a bullet at a range of ten yard fracturing his foot"

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive arriving at Hilo(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central medallion bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER