Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Republic of with nice patina to gilded

with nice patina to gilded wires

Footnote: The 78th Overseas Field Battery was based in Calgary

Monks Horton C

worn on a replacement red ribbon with large rosette denoting officer class

with a black rayon mobile swastika

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Republic of with nice patina to gilded(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised