Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Decoration, By Petz & Lorenz consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac German Red Cross Decoration Type

German Red Cross Decoration Type III (1937-1939) - First Class neck cross

Latvia) on April 3 and April 5

under the command of Blondeel

Pernambuco

Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Decoration, By Petz & Lorenz consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac German Red Cross Decoration Type(SS Dienstauszeichnung fr 4 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of blackened bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing central raised double Sig runes, set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a central raised number 4, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked but with the physical characteristics of