Germany. A Mint Ss 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive apple green cotton/wool blended backer

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to be awarded for “excellent performance in shooting with the light machine gun

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1917 and is buried in Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery

Germany. A Mint Ss 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive apple green cotton/wool blended backerA textbook example of a SS 4 Year Long Service Award (SS Dienstauszeichnung); in blackened bronze; unmarked, but these medals were produced exclusively by Deschler & Sohn of Munich and Lorenz of Unterreichenbach; exquisite manufacturing quality with very fine details; the obverse bearing the standard SS runes within an open ended oak leaf wreath with ribbons on the bottom of the wreath; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS (For Loyal