Germany, Ss. A Long Service Award, Iv Class For 4 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Order of Combatant Merit -

Order of Combatant Merit - Officer

The collar is trimmed in an angled brown embroidered cord beside a 9 mm wide strip of fine silvered wire threading

with one also wearing an Imperial Submarine Badge

representing all nine provinces

Germany, Ss. A Long Service Award, Iv Class For 4 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Order of Combatant Merit -(SS Dienstauszeichnung IV. Klasse fr 4 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of blackened bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing central raised double Sig runes, set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a raised number 4, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked, measuring 38. 02 mm in diameter,