Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive and measures 34 mm (w)

and measures 34 mm (w) x 103 mm (l)

died at the age of 19 on September 3

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"

WWI 27th Infantry Battalion Sweetheart Pin - Silver and enamels

arriving at Hilo

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive and measures 34 mm (w)(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