Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration I Class Bar For 21 Years certificate_of_authenticity chipping evident in the enamels

chipping evident in the enamels on the shield

in order to command the cruiser U

They had a medal of pure gold struck for the man “who in 1916 risked his life for Irish liberty” which bore on the front side a portrait of Captain Spindler with his name and on the reverse side an inscription in commemoration of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916 and the blockade breakthrough by the German auxiliary cruiser"

a nice example

After his European service concluded

Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration I Class Bar For 21 Years certificate_of_authenticity chipping evident in the enamels(Militar Dienstauszeichnungen) Instituted 18 June 1825. A bar of gilded non magnetic metal, bearing the cipher of Friedrich Wilhelm III (F. W. III.) on a pebbled background, affixed on a blue ribbon with yellow edges with a metal backer with horizontal pinback with a round wire catch, measuring 42. 50 mm (w) x 39. 14 mm (h), very fine.