Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Archive Shropshire

Shropshire

officially awarded medal

was engaged in a bitter struggle to secure the bridges across the Douve River north of Carentan

1896 and was discontinued in 1963

the reverse centre featuring the monogram of Leopold I on an enameled black background

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Archive Shropshire(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst I . Klasse fr Mnner). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded tombak, on loop for suspension from a period ribbon featuring a post war replacement embroidered eagle device, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head defaced by