Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive A “Deutsches Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen”

A “Deutsches Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen”

This NCO who enlisted with the Battalion in 1914

WWI 27th Infantry Battalion Sweetheart Pin - Silver and enamels

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"

The tunic has a brown cotton strap in the collar for hanging the tunic on a hook and measures 440 mm across the shoulders and 590 mm in length overall

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive A “Deutsches Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen”(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