Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years visually-hidden Red paint chipping on the

Red paint chipping on the collar tabs

A Gau Level Leiter eines Amtes Armband

63 mm (w) x 50

was in a state of exhaustion and

Footnote: Stanley Jerome Connell served in the RCAF during the Second War

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years visually-hidden Red paint chipping on the(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing an 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 number 8, circumscribed by an inscription of FR TREUE