Germany, Federal Republic. A Lower Saxony Fire Brigade 25-Year Long Service Badge Hold After the death of Tsar

After the death of Tsar Alexander II

A DRL (German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise/Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen) Bronze Grade Sports badge

After just four days of bitter fighting the under-equipped and poorly prepared Australian and Dutch forces on the island surrendered

to Sergeant on April 1

Germany, Federal Republic. A Lower Saxony Fire Brigade 25-Year Long Service Badge Hold After the death of Tsar(Feuerwehr Ehrenzeichen fr 25 Jahre). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath, joined together at the bottom by a banner with a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), topped by a raised number of 25, with a central Saxon horse on a ribbed background, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 40 mm (w)