Germany, Federal Republic. A Lower Saxony Fire Brigade 25-Year Long Service Badge Hold A Dutch Volunteer Home Guards

A Dutch Volunteer Home Guards Merit Medal - In silvered bronze

and dedicated in remembrance either of or to Otto

After the death of Tsar Alexander II

After just four days of bitter fighting the under-equipped and poorly prepared Australian and Dutch forces on the island surrendered

It measures 245 mm (w) x 280 mm (h)

Germany, Federal Republic. A Lower Saxony Fire Brigade 25-Year Long Service Badge Hold A Dutch Volunteer Home Guards(Feuerwehr Ehrenzeichen fr 25 Jahre). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath, joined together at the bottom by a banner with a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), topped by a raised number of 25, with a central Saxon horse on a ribbed background, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 40 mm (w)