Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic returning to the 20th Battalion

returning to the 20th Battalion overseas in France

Special class for 50 years of service

the reverse presents blue-enamelled cross arms and eagles between each quadrant

the interior in a silk lid marked Frederico Gaspar da Costa

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic returning to the 20th Battalion(Dienstauszeichnungen der Polizei I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte 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 medallion