Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award GTRexclude in painted zink

in painted zink

efficiency medal with Canada scroll

which give the co-ordinates of the opposing positions: they were but fifty yards apart

reverse centre presenting Motto “IMMOTA FIDES”

1941 with the Canadian Army

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award GTRexclude in painted zink(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a pedestal overlaid by an inscription of BLUT UND BODEN (BLOOD AND SOIL) and a mobile swastika defaced by a sword and wheat stalk, situated above a number 40 and inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a