Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold and whose lives were saved

and whose lives were saved by a life jacket

” the reverse shows a hinged

demonstrating extensive loss of finish to the insignia

original ribbon suspended from a bar with ball finials at either end

(Organisation Todt Gürtelschnalle)

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold and whose lives were saved(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst I . Klasse fr Mnner). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded tombak, on loop for suspension from a period ribbon featuring a post war replacement embroidered eagle device, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head defaced by