Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive WWI 27th Infantry Battalion Sweetheart

WWI 27th Infantry Battalion Sweetheart Pin - Silver and enamels

crazing and chipping evident in selected rays on both sides

his unit went into action at St Julien and "when charging enemy was struck by a bullet at a range of ten yard fracturing his foot"

arriving at Hilo

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive WWI 27th Infantry Battalion Sweetheart(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse overlaid by 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 with a central medallion bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER