Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Newly Listed the album bound by a

the album bound by a brown string fed through two drilled holes with reinforcing eyelets and tied in a knot at the front

His career with the RCAF spanned twenty-three years (1941-1964)

with one silvery aluminium HV cipher

but subsequently demoted back to Private nine times prior to his actions at the River Savio

including a Heer M43 EM/NCO’s cap eagle

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Newly Listed the album bound by a(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised 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 raised inscription