Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Archive (U-12-Abzeichen)

(U-12-Abzeichen)

he was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in bronze

Verdienstkreuz II

Accompanying the album

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Archive (U-12-Abzeichen)(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 20 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a postwar replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central 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 medallion