Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction Archive The Paratrooper badge is cotton

The Paratrooper badge is cotton and gold bullion

5 cm (h) (inclusive of frame)

Africa Star (78986 D

Footnote: Upon arrival in England in 1915

many miles over enemy lines

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction Archive The Paratrooper badge is cotton(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR