Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years, with Case Auction Archive while his unit was engaged

while his unit was engaged near Budapest

1914 with the 23rd Infantry Battalion "Montreal Battalion" in Montreal

Germany (Third Reich): Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst = RAD) Cap Insignia (red

He was transferred to the front in May 1942

the tie that binds the two ends of the headband at the rear having been lost to time

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years, with Case Auction Archive while his unit was engaged(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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 number 8 circumscribed by an