Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 18-Year Long Service Cross With Case Hold 1943 and signed in blue

1943 and signed in blue ink by the Staff Chief Medical Officer of Reserve Military Hospital II

In yellow and red embroidery on black cotton backer

and Black Wound Badge (blackened bronze

The insignia in the center is perfectly intact

the Divisions’ first campaign was in the Ukraine in April 1944

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 18-Year Long Service Cross With Case Hold 1943 and signed in blue(Dienstauszeichnung fr Treue Dienste in der Polizei). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback and Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) insignia, presenting as a Cross Patte with bordered arms, obverse with central Ordnungspolizei style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, on top of an oval oak leaf wreath, reverse with inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER POLIZEI