Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration, Twenty-Five Year, Type I Newly Listed 4 Stationary Hospital at Arques

4 Stationary Hospital at Arques on June 21

smooth finished off-white underside

A KDF (Strength through Joy/Kraft Durch Freude) Gau Franken badge

(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter)

Three and a half weeks later he was wounded by a shellburst on June 15

Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration, Twenty-Five Year, Type I Newly Listed 4 Stationary Hospital at Arques(Militar Dienstauszeichnungen) Instituted 18 June 1825. A straight arm cross paty constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse centre bears the crowned ciper FW III (Friedrich Wilhelm III), the revere centre bears XXV, the arms arm pebbled with smooth borders, with suspension loop on a blue ribbon, measuring 39. 40 mm (w) x 43. 90 mm (h), very fine.