Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years, With Case United Republic of 1915 at Camp Niagara

1915 at Camp Niagara

two branches of the Order exist

size marked "5 3/4" and dated "1940" on the rear cradle arm

by Gustav Brehmer of Markneukirchen

In its balsa wood box of issue

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years, With Case United Republic of 1915 at Camp Niagara(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 with a central raised number 8, circumscribed by a raised inscription of FR