Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold (Organisation Todt Gürtelschnalle)

(Organisation Todt Gürtelschnalle)

original ribbon suspended from a bar with ball finials at either end

(Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1870

version issued circa 1925

Footnote: The Territorial Force Imperial Service Badge was a short lived decoration of the United Kingdom

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold (Organisation Todt Gürtelschnalle)(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