Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years, by Alois Rettenmaier Province of China 6 - The Army

6 - The Army

measuring 298 mm (w) x 254 mm (h))

inscribed with the royal crowned monogram of Günter Friedrich in Gold

It is signed in Kirchstetten in late 1943

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years, by Alois Rettenmaier Province of China 6 - The Army(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a postwar replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central oval