Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 8mm (w) x 69

8mm (w) x 69

posted to Petawawa on December 1st

when it was called back to Germany to take command of the new attack submarine oceanic SM U-82 into service in the IV Flotilla

marked "STERLING" in two locations on the reverse

(VDA = Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland) : Silvered bronze with blue enamels

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 8mm (w) x 69(Dienstauszeichnungen der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patt with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing 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 bearing a central oval disc