Germany, Third Reich. A 25-Year Faithful Service Cross, With Case, By Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 1943 and qualified as a

1943 and qualified as a Class III Driver (M/C Comb) two weeks later

Bedfordshire Regiment

A General Assault Badge stickpin

bearing two rows of copper bullion wire piping with blue thread patterning and two rows of woven green threaded piping

along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful continental motorcycle journey

Germany, Third Reich. A 25-Year Faithful Service Cross, With Case, By Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 1943 and qualified as a(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen 2. Stufe fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central black swastika, the reverse with a central inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE), with an oak leaf wreath through the quadrants, measuring 40. 95 mm (w) x