Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold General Robert Nivelle

General Robert Nivelle

BENE MERENTI" (Well Meriting the Military Order of the Knights of Malta)

It is a short cut jacket with short tails in the back

cased bronze medal

uppers in very fine gold-coloured bullion wire with a smooth finish and trimmed in two rows of silver-coloured rolled wire on the edges of the protruding spine

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold General Robert Nivelle(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from a period original cut down ribbon, consisting of an elongated Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a