Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Archive The blouse measures 400 mm

The blouse measures 400 mm across the shoulders and 545 mm in length overall

Class III at Shilo Camp

he developed a medical issue while waiting for his transport to Europe and was treated at Cogswell Street in downtown Halifax

during which he was shot down or forced to crash-land 17 times

Being forced to live in the same company and within narrow confines seemed to make a very depressing influence on the mind

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Archive The blouse measures 400 mm(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with embroidered device, consisting of a 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 overlaid