Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Hold with a list of unit

with a list of unit members set onto the opposite side

museum tag affixed to reverse inscribed "CM-B 1195"

Acquired at a small militaria show in Bavaria in 2013

Type I (Medaglia d'onore per lunga navigazione compiuta)

Joseph (John on roll) Taylor served as a Gunner aboard H

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Hold with a list of unit(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a 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 bearing a central raised inscription