Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold Measuring 40x52mm

Measuring 40x52mm

A pair of Officer grade belts

were on my tail at the time

the inscription on the left reads 50 JAAR BEVRIJDING NEDERLAND 1945-1995

5) A Saxon Order of Albert ribbon with miniature Swords

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold Measuring 40x52mm(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