Germany, Rad. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Auction Archive The clients were exclusively officers

The clients were exclusively officers of the Wehrmacht and SS units

he applied for a posting and joined 66 Squadron on April 10

with a knurled needle pin

scuff mark evident above the insignia

Germany, Rad. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Auction Archive The clients were exclusively officers(Dienstauszeichnung der Reichsarbeitsdienst, I Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised Reich Labour Service (RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel overlaid by a mobile swastika, set within wheat stalks, the reverse bearing a